Return to Book Page. When reluctant hero, Steve Payton, receives an encrypted email by accident he ends up losing sleep. But not as much sleep as when he decides to investigate further. Soon Payton and Janet Phillips, a cryptographic specialist he enlists for help, realize that nothing is, as it seems. Payton and Janet desperately attempt to piece the puzzle together. All the while, The Committee is playing their ruthless and deadly power game to have their target eliminated.
And in doing so, The Committee will effect a change at the highest levels of government. Kindle Edition , pages. Published January 5th first published July 5th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Cassandra Conspiracy , please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about The Cassandra Conspiracy. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Aug 24, Jim rated it liked it. Overall, a good book to read, especially for a first book. He needs someone with a better grammatical background to fix a lot of things like how to use quotes that continue from paragraph to paragraph and much more.
A lot of what he was calling new is way out of date, so I'm not sure how to combine that with his stated background. But, it moves well, for the most part. A little contrived in Overall, a good book to read, especially for a first book. A little contrived in places most books are. Although I usually don't like a romance to accompany a plot, his was one of the more naturally evolving ones other than I don't like sex scenes, even as downplayed as this one was.
A quick comment about the book's title.
As I remember he does offer a comment in the text that ties to the Greek Mythological character Cassandra, which then allows you to connect the dotes to the books title. What almost makes this a four for me is the ending.
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The "Epilogue" is very nicely done. The writing style is exceptional at this point. I got a copy of this when it was free Jun , so don't know if it has been fixed now that it costs a little. Not part of advertisement, just there. Apr 02, Kim Grobbelaar rated it it was amazing. Twists and turns in the story makes you want to keep reading till the end.
Feb 23, Randall Burns rated it really liked it. A bit farfetched that our hero came out on top, but that didn't interfere with the fun we had reading the book. Fast paced, conspiracy which involves the U. Government at the highest levels. A good beach read.
Pamela rated it really liked it Mar 25, Alan rated it it was ok Sep 16, Deborah Carrier rated it did not like it Dec 26, Suzanne Lahl rated it it was amazing Dec 14, Jasmeet Singh rated it liked it Feb 25, Cyber rated it it was amazing Jun 27, Dear Sir, This is a devil-advocate comment, but not one to defend a somewhat clueless person - Mr. Ball - but to do some critique on "scientism": It is slightly annoying to see scientists mimicking political pundits in their ignorance on some of the factors underlying the rising "populism", namely that people are fed up with lies, and are ready to accept the least complex lie.
And the trouble here is that scientists lie, a lot - one just need to have an average memory to recall the worrysome fact that every time a team of scientists comes about to say that a previous scientific fact is now proved wrong, instead of leaving a safe margin of doubt regarding the new "truth", more often than not their claim is that now "we know for sure" until some way down along the timeline some other scientist props up the new truth. And also, scientists do despicable things this is just a case that seems relevant to me at various levels. Even if science is not yet fully embraced as the new religion, scientists are already acting as the new priests: It doesn't help having a dumb, er, misinformed populace, with little to no critical reasoning, being treated as a child treating a child "like a child" don't help either as it was clearly stated in your previous post, when Mr.
Why are you surprised that Mr. Ball have people's hears and worst, hearts? He is and you are, otherwise you wouldn't be bothering posting your thoughts on this. Please do note that my view on the "cabal" vs "conspiracy" thing is one of mild amusement - my personal belief is that it is now too late for scientific leadership on anything, because scientists have indulged for far too long in low level politics i.
Thank you for reading. You are correct on many things, Armenio. Many scientists are acting in despicable ways. Overall, they are a bunch of despicable elitists.
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Yet, the fact that scientists are not nice guys doesn't mean that we are not in trouble and it doesn't mean that climate change is not real. We need to keep cool and go on, otherwise we are doomed. And in Portugal you know very well what I mean. Thank you for your reply - sad but true: It does not help having every new discovery delivered by a "journalist". So much hot air.
Why is my car not fueled by biodiesel generated from algae? I was on an msnbc, NBC science web page full of space travel and wonderful fluff, but zero mention of climate. I would agree that 'scientism' in service to the Religion of Progress will likely result in 'Science' taking much of the blame for failed promises of our civilisation.
I suggest, however, that climate science has, by and large, been exemplary in building a 'testable' scientific knowledge base.
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I agree with Ugo on this. And that knowledge base is being tested! Again, in my view, by and large, climate science as a discipline has been so careful not to exaggerate the future dangers, it has in consequence failed to provide a sufficient case for critically examining where the Religion of Progress is heading. We might exempt James Hansen and Ugo Bardi from such a charge. To make a general case, which I gather you might be making, the next time Portugal, for example, gets promised anything that sounds 'too good to be true', by anybody, it could be worth remembering that it probably isn't!
Perhaps people are not so dumb as you imply? The problem is, I believe, that the task of telling people about the dangers of climate change has fallen on people, climate scientists, who have no training in communication and, worse, believe themselves smart enough that they don't need it. Many climate scientists suffer of this form of Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
They don't understand their shortcomings when it is question of communicating science to the public.
No wonder that people are not happy. The letter from Armenio is a clear example of the frustration that many people feel.
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They feel they are being lied at by both sides. Thank you for your insights. If my previous comment conveyed the idea that I am trying to blame everyone left and right, it was my mistake and also due to not so good English skills. One of the reasons for me being here spilling my grievances is Mr. Bardi's down to earth approach that resonates deeply with this unhappy layman. As for Portugal, how can I give an honest, thoughtful assessement of what is going on without falling flat on the "holier-than-thou" stance of which I am accusing others?
I cannot - I am too angry and too frustrated to be unbiased. The best that I can offer as a factual assessement is this: Bearing in mind that Portugal is a democracy, with regular elections, it seems fairly clear that the Portuguese people are not exactly grasping what is going on recent domestic economic news points out car selling as one of the major signs of recovery - the country has no oil and is a car net importer. Peak oil, resource deplection, climate change aren't tabu issues, fantasies or even non-issues - they're non-existent issues.
Levin has a job, and is listened to - I'd never suspected that Americans were so into surrealism or are we living in surreal times? Just now I googled a string: Firstly, Portugal is not alone in its predicament or its recent trajectory. Lots of stuff changed e. Modernisation is not what it was and the business model may no longer work.
Take a look at the late-comers to the business model for example, Eastern Europe, ex Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. This EU expansion is simply not now going to happen. It begins to look like failed promises of a civilisation.
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Again, Portugal need not blame itself — we are all in it. Try the Good Ship Brexit for confusion at the helm. Can we nail them? Climate Science seemed relatively clean? I saw some Biotech up close and nasty more than 20 years ago, briefly, especially in the States; pretty ideological as well as profit oriented. But is the current serious move to promote carbon capture from burning biomass the kind of dangerous development you have in mind?
It surely must involve disinformation?