James Joyce's Reviews > Lethal Velocity

One of those fun thrill ride adventures. A touch of scifi, but in a plausible way, a large helping of terrorists, and some shades of "Die Hard".

Warne is a robotics programmer. He designed the AI system controlling the robots at a new high-tech amusement park, a rival to Disney. He's been called back to dismantle his system, because it's malfunctioning. Only he discovers it's not malfunctioning, it's been hacked. And the hackers have planted explosives all over the park, and they can manipulate internal systems in a way that could lead to thousands of deaths.

It's up to Warne and a handful of others to deal with this, without any guests or most staff ever knowing.

Until things go to hell and people start dying.

It was fun and, once it got going, a quick read. Not Child's best, but not a bad tech thriller.