Hooked

　　Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet caf? 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.

Katherine Neville, Best-selling author of The Eight

　　"Wow. HOOKED is a wild roller-coaster ride through the hidden world where digital and biological cultures meet and clash. The scariest thing about Matt Richtel's astonishing first novel is that it is all possible, it is all probable--and it is all probably happening to us right now."

Edgar Award-winning author Rupert Holmes

　　"If Michael Crichton and John Grisham decided to collaborate on a novel set in Silicon Valley, they might come up with a thriller as cutting-edge and suspenseful as Hooked. With this highly addictive debut, Matt Richtel could become the bard of the iPod generation

David Liss, Edgar Award-winning author A Conspiracy of Paper

　　"Hooked is not only an exciting thriller but also a remarkably moving and human story, and a very funny novel as well. Matt Richtel has written a very smart and engaging page-turner about the chaos of our present moment and the timeless qualities that make us human."

Stephen Coonts, author of The Traitor

"Matt Richtel is a hell of a talent. After I read Hooked, I shot my computer."

Katherine Neville, best-selling author of The Eight

　　"Wow. HOOKED is a wild roller-coaster ride through the hidden world where digital and biological cultures meet and clash. The scariest thing about Matt Richtel's astonishing first novel is that it is all possible, it is all probable--and it is all probably happening to us right now."

-Thomas Gaughan, Booklist

　　"A shrewd cinematic thriller, filled with knowing insights about San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the wired-wireless world."