Femme Fatale Online (eBook)

Femme Fatale Online (eBook)

Eugene Rodgers
Eugene Rodgers
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Lingua: en
Editore: Eugene Rodgers
Codice EAN: 9780463602331
Anno pubblicazione: 2018
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AS DISCUSSED ON THE NATIONAL CABLE TV PROGRAM, "AMERICA TRENDS," "Femme Fatale Online" is an intriguing mystery. Rick Collins participates in a virtual world called Personal Portal, or PP, populated by avatars controlled by participants at their home computers who can be anywhere in the world. Using an expensive app, people can make their avatars look exactly like them in every detail. Through his avatar twin, Isaac, Rick spends all his PP time with another look-alike avatar, the sexy Joan d'Arc, who wants to have a romance. He's married with two toddlers and wrestles with the morality of a virtual relationship, finally deciding a PP romance is a harmless fantasy. Joan's unknown animator gets him a job in the real world with a high-tech military contractor, and then reveals she's a spy for a huge international clandestine operation. She forces Rick into industrial espionage by blackmailing him with secretly-taped videos of their realistic-looking romantic activities. As the story develops, she threatens to kill him and his family unless he keeps his job, which is insecure and subject to vicious office politics. Rick, who knows absolutely nothing about the real Joan, realizes his family is doomed unless he can identify her and her whereabouts soon. As Rick stated his awful challenge, "I couldn't see any way to investigate a woman who was nothing but pixels on a computer screen." Rick's job is in Pittsburgh, but circumstances have forced his family to remain in Virginia, and he's lonely. While he struggles to find the real Joan, one of the women he suspects of being her conducts a campaign to seduce him. Vulnerable and susceptible to an affair that would take his mind off Joan's terrifying threats, he gradually weakens. Lonely during the workweek because he’s in Pittsburgh while his wife and family are home in Virginia, and susceptible to an affair that would take his mind off Joan’s terrifying threats, he gradually weakens. THE BOOK The novel is not about avatars or a virtual world as such. It’s written for a general audience. The avatars are the same as regular characters in any novel, and almost all the action takes place in the real world. After the beginning of the story, the hero’s interactions with the avatars aren’t much different from Skyping in the real world. The book is basically a mystery but has elements of thrillers, spy novels, romances, and science fiction. Readers learn what life is like for an employee of a major corporation (not fun) and a resident of Pittsburgh (surprisingly pleasant). Readers vicariously experience unusual, interesting places. One is the virtual world. Another is a nudist resort, when Joan assigns Rick to spy on a member and he visits with Bard. The book has no explicit sex and little violence, but it does have risqué parts and some raw language. An Agatha Christie mystery it is not. It’s a modern, nontraditional novel that’s true to life. The story raises several questions: Do the moral principles that govern sexual activity also apply to virtual sex, which will become widespread when virtual reality takes off, possibly in the next year or two? Is it possible to love two people at the same time, a question that applies to Rick in his relations with Martha and Bard? Can an employee act ethically while trying to survive in the jungle-like realities of corporate life, described by one character as the three B’s—backstabbing, butt kissing, and BS-ing. THE AUTHOR Eugene Rodgers is a retired public relations writer for several large corporations. He was named Virginia author of the year in 1991.