I am always very happy to read books using the unfolding realities of the everyday world as a canvas. We are living complex times and integrating fragments of this ongoing reality only makes more people more aware of the changes.
Therefore, my high interest to read a book that is using a motive inspired by cryptocurrency. The ways in which this type of currency is affecting economies and economic behavior all over the world are not fully known, but the changes are already happening.
Following the tragical death of his parents, a brilliant but sometimes awkward undergraduate of the prestigious London School of Economics, Sebastian Locke is getting involved in a global conspiracy. If he will be able to crack the code he may even help the world from a catastrophe threatening the world.
Fast-paced and full of events that take the reader through the intricate maze of the digital maze, Dolos, the debut novel from L.H.Fox may be a work of fiction but the imaginary framework is not fully deprived of elements of reality. There are questions surrounding the rise of digital economy which may be challenged in this book, and so is the ways in which power - absolute power - can be achieved through the infinite possibilities of the digital underworld.
Dolos is first and foremost an adventurous book with conspiracies and catastrophes luring around every corner, but it also challenges gently but firmly our old conceptions about world and its rules. An interesting read, nevertheless.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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