Tracks by Mike Gordon (Fractal Fiction, £9) (From The Northern Echo)

Tracks by Mike Gordon (Fractal Fiction, £9)

2:34pm Wednesday 26th November 2008 in Reviews By Sharon Griffiths

SOMETIME in the near future the Global Health Care Corporation has developed microchip technology which can track every bit of your body – so an ambulance turns up to take you to hospital before you’ve hardly realised you’re ill.

It’s an intriguing idea and so believable.

Writer Mike Gordon is a medical software expert so knows his stuff which gives the novel a wonderfully authentic feel.

Computer expert Peter Miller leaves the corporation and starts work in a psychiatric hospital in London, developing a system to track the aggressions levels of dangerous patients. Meanwhile, the USA is threatened by a deadly virus and the race is on to keep one jump ahead of it. Not helped by what the President’s microchip reveals about his state of mind...

This is a fast-moving, original, very visual thriller. Told in short sharp scenes that keep the action moving and the atmosphere tense.

It would make a great film.