San Francisco Chronicle and Denver Post Bestseller!

0-446-58008-2/978-0-446-58008-3
$24.99 (In Canada: $31.99)
304 pages; 6 x 9
Fiction
Rights: World

From New York Times reporter Matt Richtel comes a psychological thriller that establishes him as “the bard of the iPod generation.”*

Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom he has obsessively been mourning. So begins HOOKED, a pop thriller for the Internet Age, written with the force of an adrenaline rush and the pace of an intimate email dispatch you can’t stop reading. Each chapter of this novel will keep readers hooked as Nat Idle searches for the love of his life in the midst of manipulation and conspiracy.

Matt Richtel has covered technology and telecommunications for the New York Times in San Francisco since 2000. Under the pen name “Theron Heir,” he writes the nationally syndicated daily comic strip Rudy Park, which revolves around the lives of employees and regulars of an Internet café.

John Grisham fans will love HOOKED for the suspense laced with humor; Michael Crichton fans for its provocative take on the way technology is impacting our world; and Scott Spencer devotees for its story of intense love.

Foreign rights for HOOKED have already been sold in Germany, Portugal, and Israel.

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