THIS IS RAGE
A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness
By
Ken Goldstein
Publisher: The Story Plant
Publication Date: October 8, 2013
Book Description:
The words
“Silicon Valley” usually evoke images of shiny new devices unveiled at blockbuster product launches, geniuses
performing coding miracles in futuristic office campuses, and blockbuster IPOs creating the world’s biggest fortunes.
They usually don’t evoke images of misfits, malefactors
and ordinary schlubs turned into accidental felons…
But the same way Tom Wolfe unveiled the seamy underbelly of Manhattan high finance in The
Bonfire of the Vanities, tech insider Ken Goldstein holds nothing back in his debut novel THIS IS RAGE. Goldstein has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a software and media executive. In THIS
IS RAGE, he translates his expertise into the Silicon
Valley novel we’ve all been waiting for—a biting,
darkly comic crime thriller that lays bare the realities of the
tech business, the media, and how they relate to the economic
and political powder keg that is America in the twenty-first
century.
From the opening scene, where a
botched attempt to kidnap a legendary billionaire venture capitalist
leaves one investment banker dead, two start-up execs missing,
and two terminally unlucky programmers in way over their heads,
all bets are off. And the ride only gets wilder from there.
Because the kidnappers and their victims are about to cross paths
with Kimo Balthazer—a volatile, hard-drinking
talk radio host who no longer commands the huge audience
he once did. And he has finally infuriated enough broadcasting
executives with his brash opinions and crude antics that his
career appears to be toast.
But
when
Kimo goes rogue and begins telling his no-holds-barred version
of the truth on uncensored, unregulated internet radio, legions
of laid-off workers and other decent people swallowed by the
cutthroat economy start to pay attention again. And when he scores
an exclusive interview with America’s most-wanted felons,
things start to get really crazy.
Kimo is seething mad but he’s not crazy—he’s
desperate for a comeback, and with the nation tuning in he’s about to inject himself into the middle of the manhunt
that’s gripping Silicon Valley… and make it clear who the real criminals are. That is, if a meddling family-values
zealot in Congress and a power-hungry old entertainment magnate don’t get their way.
Right up to the final scene of this accomplished debut, it’s tantalizingly hard to tell where the good guys
end and the bad guys begin in THIS IS RAGE.
Ken Goldstein has had a front row seat for the last two-plus
decades of incredible progress in tech and media, and has
parlayed these experiences into the fiction event of the fall.
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Idgie Says:
Clocking in at 500 plus pages, this is a book you need to be prepared to dedicate some time to! It has everything from market crashes, hostage situations, and a radio DJ somehow controlling and making changes with the power of his words.
This is a thriller novel based in the very real world of Silicon Valley, with many of the behind the scenes details and secrets that actually occur being shown between these pages. The dirty stuff - makes for good reading!
If you ever wondered what happened during those power plays and takeovers, here's the scoop!