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The Trusted (2013)

di John M Green

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How far would you go to save the planet? ...Would you destroy it? Imagine a global depression caused, not by greed or stupidity, but by a secret band of brilliant and radical environmentalists, 9S, using cyber-terror to slash the world's population and smash its resource-hungry economy. 9S members have spent ten years infiltrating industry and government, working their way into the most trusted jobs...sleepers ready to act. The finger first points at Australian-born Dr Tori Swyft, a former 9S member recently forced out of the CIA. Can the dark 9S conspiracy be stopped before it's too late? They are the most trusted... until they betray their trust.… (altro)
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Although far-fetched, then again maybe not this book is a terrific read.
  geejays | May 19, 2014 |
Written by successful Australian author John M. Green (Nowhere Man, Born To Run) The Trusted is a stand-alone novel introducing new character Dr. Tori Swyft. Tori is Australian, a surfer, and child prodigy earning a PhD at a young age, and is now ex-CIA. She ends up being recruited by an Organisation called SIS whose concept will blow your mind.

The 'trusted' of the title are members of a group who have climbed the corporate ladders within their own unique fields of industry and specialty, and earned great positions of trust. In an attempt to save the environment and the planet from overpopulation, these radicals will abuse their positions of trust in the most unexpected of ways, causing untold damage to the financial markets, security services, and much more.

Reading the plans of some of the members actually gave me chills; what if someone could actually pull this off, it would cause a global crisis! Green has conjured some terrifying scenarios here, that are real and worrying enough to keep you turning the pages into the night to find out if and how it can all be stopped.

I found the plot very convincing and not once did I need to suspend belief, which is what sometimes happens when reading a Matthew Reilly of similar scale.

Green also employed a clever writing tactic of redacting (blacking out) a few details in the book which made me smile at first (how clever) but then made me frown as I spent way too much time trying to make out the words and beat the author at his own game. This technique definitely added to my enjoyment and is something - as a reader - I don't remember having come across before.

Feel free to judge for yourself, and read a free extract from The Trusted from a link at the full review here: http://www.carpelibrum.net/2013/04/review-trusted-john-m-green.html ( )
  Carpe_Librum | Apr 29, 2013 |
THE TRUSTED is an environmental thriller with an audacious premise that does require an almost total suspension of disbelief. But if you are able to lose yourself in the version of the near future that Green depicts you’re in for a terrific ride.

An Australian academic’s plans to save the world involve destroying a lot of it first and he settles in for the long game. He selects a group of highly intelligent and ambitious young people who share his worries about the rapid depletion of the world’s resources and grooms them to become quasi sleeper agents working towards global economic and political collapse. Each of them is to work their way up in their chosen field – medicine, banking, technology and so on – so that on a predetermined date they can unleash whatever catastrophe they have been able to orchestrate. After their initial meetings the group’s members never contact each other or their mentor again so there is little hope of anyone in authority being able to identify the group’s existence or interrupt its plans until it’s too late. The first inkling most people have of something being horribly wrong is when the operating model being used by many of the world’s nuclear power plants is found to have a dangerous glitch in its code. A glitch seemingly put in place by Dr Tori Swyft, former junior world surfing champion and disgraced CIA agent who must now use her considerable skills to prove her innocence and help prevent the global collapse planned a decade ago.

It probably says more about me than it does about the book that I found the plot easier to swallow than the characters but overall I enjoyed both. While the story’s vast scope might (hopefully does) border on laughable its individual elements are all credible enough, especially aided by the right amount of detail to make them seem eerily, worryingly possible (seriously it’s going to keep me awake tonight). And once you accept the novel’s operating premise there is an internal logic to everything that follows which is, for me, the most important thing in this kind of thriller. The plausibility of each person’s plan for catastrophe, the way that the plans are uncovered and the reactions to these discoveries by individuals and authorities are all well within the bounds of believable. The sheer number of events taking place and the speed at which things unfold make the whole novel exciting and the final fifty or so pages is pure white-knuckle reading.

The one thing that annoyed me a little about the characters is that they are all superhuman in one or more ways. Tori Swyft, for example, is drop-dead gorgeous, a genius and physically gifted to boot. Which is all very well except that as a reader I find this kind of ‘überhuman’ a bit dull as they’re rarely in any real danger of not being able to pull off whatever unlikely miracle they need to. I guess in real life the beautiful people only surround themselves with other beautiful people which explains why all the players here are of above average intelligence, looks, sexual prowess and wealth but I’d have preferred to meet one or two ordinary folk to make things a little more recognisable. However, even though I was well prepared to dislike Tori (jealousy’s a curse) I did warm to her affable character and was definitely cheering her and her fellow good guys on.

Although it can be read entirely independently, THE TRUSTED has a few links to Green’s earlier thriller, BORN TO RUN, which I also enjoyed. They were kind of like the Easter eggs that devoted players will uncover in computer games and seemed like a nice little reward for reader loyalty without punishing those who had not read the earlier novel.

As someone who has spent more than her fair share of time in meetings of environmental groups at which more time is spent wordsmithing the mission statement than planning anything that will constructively change the world I must admit to being strangely lured by the premise of this novel (I’m not young, intelligent or sexy enough to pull something like it off so you needn’t worry). But even without that personal hook I think THE TRUSTED has all the qualities needed to appeal to fans of a well-plotted ‘what if…’ thriller. And the last line is a doozy.
  bsquaredinoz | Apr 2, 2013 |
Interesting premise this. Take a devastating hit, albeit targeted, in the name of radical environmentalism to engineer a change for the good of the planet. Use sleeper agents who have worked their way into positions of influence and power over many years. Make it even more devastating by having the strikes occur in quick succession, stretching authorities to the limit. Make the targets as varied and unpredictable as possible.

Because of the huge range of incidents the authorities are scrambling just to deal with the fallout, the connections aren't that easy to see to start off with. At the centre of it all is Dr Tori Swyft, ex-CIA member, Australian surfer girl, who, at university, briefly belonged to the group of sleeper agents - 9S. Lead by a most unexpected character, the group has spread out across all sorts of industries, cultures and backgrounds. These committed individuals, once inculcated to the cause, never contact each other again. It's really only Swyft that can work out the connections as the attacks build. Very fast train pileups, a code change in management software for nuclear reactors (okay so I had a bit of trouble swallowing the open source / nobody noticed bit of this one), a financial crisis instigated by within a bank (not so hard to picture), biohazards, and potential shipping disasters.

Swyft, now working for another secretive organisation involved in engineering major corporate outcomes for its clients, was in the middle of a major political / corporate coup when she is forced to walk away to discover where the trojan in her nuclear reactor code came from. This organisation and it's eccentric leader provide her with the resources, tools, and support she needs to find the connections, to go head to head with the sleeper agents, and stop the threat.

So we're obviously talking a very big threat scenario, with a lot of action happening all at once. There's also a big corporate feel to the anti-sleeper effort with private planes, fabulous yachts, high-tech gadgetry and much charging about in helicopters. A lot of the analysis, identification and outcomes that Swyft pulls off rely very heavily on the use of some very high-tech gadgetry. It's a testament to the pacing of the story that at no stage do you feel any desire to scratch a few estimates on the back of an envelope and do a spot of cost accounting - it's all very wild and cutting edge stuff yet it's compelling.

For something quite this "out there", there is a sneaking sense of possibility, which is always a very good thing in a thriller of this kind. After all, sleeper spy agents are absolutely nothing new in the world of espionage. It's not that hard to imagine that the most trusted in corporate, financial and government circles could be a plant. With an agenda that's set by convictions deeply held. Fortunately THE TRUSTED is probably fiction. At least you'd hope so.

http://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/trusted-john-m-green ( )
  austcrimefiction | Mar 28, 2013 |
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How far would you go to save the planet? ...Would you destroy it? Imagine a global depression caused, not by greed or stupidity, but by a secret band of brilliant and radical environmentalists, 9S, using cyber-terror to slash the world's population and smash its resource-hungry economy. 9S members have spent ten years infiltrating industry and government, working their way into the most trusted jobs...sleepers ready to act. The finger first points at Australian-born Dr Tori Swyft, a former 9S member recently forced out of the CIA. Can the dark 9S conspiracy be stopped before it's too late? They are the most trusted... until they betray their trust.

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