Review DARK TOMORROW By Reece Hirsch

FBI Special Agent Lisa Tanchik appears in her second adventure. The author, a male, does a good job getting inside the head of this woman, who is terrific at her job, but is hampered by recurring bouts of depression. She hasn’t caught on yet that drinking exacerbates the condition, unfortunately for her. Her mate, Jon Amis, is tolerant of her condition, for the most part.

The story opens with a character, also named John (with an “h”), who has just died of an epileptic seizure, brought on by a glaring strobe light that was installed by a hacker for the express purpose of killing him in his apartment in Columbia, Maryland. Tanchik has been after this hacker for some time. She knows the hacker only as NatalyaX, a person working with ultra-right-wing groups, for Russian interests out of Ukraine, with the goal of deepening the political divisions in the US.

The dead man, John Rosenthal, was an employee of Cyber Com, a unit under the Department of Defense working on cyberwarfare and cyber defense. There is a tug of war over jurisdiction between the FBI and that group, but Tanchik is permitted to work on the case because she already knows a lot about the hacker.

The hacker stays a step ahead of the US forces, however, and disrupts all of the power supplies to the East Coast, causing death and havoc.

The stakes are high as the two women battle it out, online as well as in person, equally matched and equally determined to accomplish their own goals.

Review DARK TOMORROW By Reece Hirsch

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