Imagine a computer program designed to weed out of society those who are deemed unfit and/or unworthy? The program is called CLEAN and once you encounter it online you are never free of it. It tracks your activity and coldly evaluates...and eliminates.

Leonard runs CLEAN and he uses Snapchat to coerce others in the community, such as our protagonist, police officer Peggy Whitfield, to carry out the executions. He threatens everything she cares about until ultimately she cares about nothing, and he still has his grips in her.

Lytes pulls off the near impossible in introducing a large slew characters early in the book but organizing them in such a way that the reader can always remember who they are and keep them straight. It is also clear that he has lived with these folks for some time. He knows them and writes them well; his characterizations are outstanding.

I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller!

I went in wanting to like the book. It was slow and just seem to get slower as I went. DNF by 70%.
Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy for review.

Leonard was not a sociable person. However, he knew computers. (Maybe too well). He devised a program called CLEAN wherein anyone the computer comes to know online, they are never free of CLEAN, again. These people will be slated to die in various ways. Yet, CLEAN will be behind these deaths.

Of course, computers are only as good as what goes into them. Also, WHO is putting information into them. When lives depend on this kind of information, once the act is carried out - there are no "do-overs".

Leonard is the genius behind CLEAN and has been solid about no one ever using the program except himself. What people input on THEIR computers feeds into Leonard's. If a combination/set of words does not sound harmful, Leonard catches it and alters the program. We hope.

An exciting, yet somewhat lengthy, look into what the internet can/will be able to do in a futuristic/sci-fi way. The characters are great! The plotline does waver a bit but the premise is quite good. (I did detect a bit of dry humor in there, as well).

Not a bad book - Suspense/Thriller/SciFi

Many Thanks to IBPA, Tom Lytes and NetGalley for a good read!

Boring and slow. I did not finish. Choppy writing style and I did not enjoy the plot. It did not gain not hold my interest.