No Escape Key

The computer world is always evolving, but now it logs on to trouble for CURE. Dr. Harold Smith's own meticulously organized files are covertly copied, analyzed and downloaded by an amazing new interface system.

Soon all of CURE's deepest secrets are under control of a shadow force. Not only Remo but even the Master of Sinanju have been accessed and installed. Now they are virtual puppets on a hard drive, slicing and dicing for the enemy at the touch of a keystroke.

And in the next step, a supersecret organization begins experimenting with the Destroyer downloads to unleash an unimaginable threat - the Fourth Reich.

Sinanju meets evil reincarnate in The Fatherland Files Trilogy.

I finished "Brain Storm" on August 3rd, the day after I picked it up at the local used book store (for some reason they get in the new Destroyer books before the chain stores.)

Basically a company owned by a modern day Nazi group with it's roots in WWII Germany invents a device that allows a computer to interface with the human mind.   It's wireless version can download a persons "mind" and be used to control the person like one of those remote control cars.

Smith winds up being downloaded while at his bank - the banks new security firm is demo-ing  the device.  This leads to Remo and Chiun being downloaded and becoming the play things of the NAZI nuts.

The NAZI baddies are part of Smith's WWII history - he has continual "flashbacks" and daydreams about them - most un-Smithish behavior.

Smitty was more involved in this storm than many in the past, and the Remo / Chiun relationship was solid. I did miss the humor - there were very few one-liners, and none of the extended banter that can have me laughing out loud (like the time Remo explained Baseball to Chiun, and Chiun was asking about the famous jewel, the "Baseball Diamond.")

I've heard from a couple of doctors who read the book and found it to be highly accurate and not too far fetched!

Overall, I really liked the book and plot.  I did find some of the NAZI characters to be interchangeable - they all had the same personality, quirks, etc.   Nothing to really distinguish them.

I did get lost a few times and had to go back and re-read some parts, but Jim obviously knows the series - we were given Smith's full name, his wife's and his daughters.  We also had tie-ins to the Lippencot banking family, and the Scubisci crime family from numerous previous books.  Lot's of trivia in one package! I was surprised that there was no tie-in to "Spider" the secret NAZI organization from "Skin Deep."

The one thing I really did not like (sorry Jim) was Smith's attitude on discovering that he had been "scanned." He dismissed it totally out of hand. No worries. No concerns. Smith should have had an immediate ulcer and realized the critical danger. He did later, but only after it was explained to him.

Now I could be wrong, and am too lazy to check, but I thought that Smith's old gun was a revolver, not a semi-automatic with two spare clips.  Hey, I've got to try and find some error!

Anyway it's a good book, although I liked #111 better. I look forward to seeing what #113 has in store.