In Matt Richtel's new thriller, HOOKED, Nat Idle, a medical journalist, is sitting in a cafe when he is handed a note warning him to get out of the cafe. Moments later, the cafe explodes. Sitting in the rubble, he gets a second shock: the handwriting on the note appears to belong to his deceased girlfriend, who has been obsessively mourning. Nat begins a fevered quest to solve the mystery of his lost love in journey forces him to to confront dark side of life in the digital age, and to question his own sanity.
"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." -- Rupert Holmes, Edgar Award-winning author
"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." -- David Liss, Edgar Award-winning author of A Conspiracy of Paper
"Matt Richtel is a hell of a talent. After I read Hooked, I shot my computer." -- Stephen Coonts, author of The Traitor
"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." -- Katherine Neville, bestselling author of The Eight
Matt Richtel is a San Francisco area author, journalist, and cartoonist. HOOKED is his first novel, and he is currently writing a second, tentatively titled IDLE'S MIND.
