Title: Strikes a personal chord
Product review: While the conspiracy of the title is, of course, the main theme of the book, I found the personal life of the main character most absobing and even a bit disturbing. Gabe, an Anthropology professor, faces his wife leaving him, making accusations of abuse and assault, possibly fueled by her therapist's leading questions. In the face of such tragedy, he aquires an embarrasment of riches, three women wanting to heal his wounds, a huge grant to think interesting thoughts about similarities between human and aliens and talk about them, and university administrators pleased at the attention he is generating. Then his troubles multiply, fire bombs, computer viruses, and kidnapping to name a few. Through it all, the wife keeps coming back, refusing to be shut out, refusing to get on with her own life, and refusing to let him get on with his. This strikes such a personal chord that I kept putting the book down to digest the emotion of the scene.
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