Roland Hughes interlaces true events along with historical
insight, then blends in his unique twist of imagination, and emerges with a
synergistically explosive novel of suspense in his creation of Infinite Exposure.
Written with a discerning view of world events, Roland
Hughes takes poetic license to the use of real names, corporations and
historical events, then builds upon the foundation of the world as we know it,
and brings forth a new world with future events of immeasurable consequences. Resulting from our short-sightedness, our
greed, and our ignorance as to how to protect the technological life we all
have grown so dependent upon, al-Qaeda takes out the very fabric of our
life. The fault is ours.
Set in the current day, referencing events post 9/11 and
progressing to the not-too-distant future, Roland Hughes slaps society in the
face showing the stupidity, the recklessness and the unwillingness to change
our ways in time to prevent the darkest of events from occurring. His characters are pawns to the global
manipulation of money, politics and corporate ineptitude which plagues this
planet.
What Thomas L. Friedman has discussed about outsourcing of
multi-national corporations in his work entitled, The World Is Flat series of publications, Roland Hughes lights the
fuse on the worse case scenario. The
brilliance of Hughes is to go beneath the circumstances with his character
development, and penetrate the minds, answering the “why” all of this has
happened. He describes the “under the
radar” workings of al-Qaeda and how even a “good Muslim” can succumb to become
manipulated. He shows how high-priced
consulting firms demonstrate their excellence in spending money without
providing results, and how upper management endorses such behavior rather than
admitting “they” made a bad purchase of outside services. His fascinating sequence of events take the
reader to an end in which only can be foreshadowed as more than a true
possibility – a likely threat, a clear and present danger.
Highly technical with respect to computer technology, Roland
Hughes is comfortable with the use of his industry vernacular, which may to
some be a bit overwhelming. Anyone with
the capability to do online banking, or even browsing the Internet certainly
has the skill level to understand the premises of this work. What was extraordinary to me was the depth of
understanding Roland Hughes manifests, as the credibility of this novel is
overwhelmingly impeccable. A work I read
in electronic format, so instead of using the expression a “page-turner” I
will, for the first time call Infinite
Exposure a book where “My finger was glued to the scroll down key.”
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