Brad Parks expertly tackled heavy subjects like quantum physics and turned it into an interesting, fast-paced thriller that will hook the reader from the first page.

Brigid Bronik, a Dartmouth Liberian, is trying to figure out what happened to her husband, a brilliant physics professor, who has been hospitalized after a seizure. At the hospital, the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with her husband, Matt Bronik so he's discharged and he returns to work in his late where he's been conducting groundbreaking experiments that get the attention of a rich tech entrepreneur Sean Plottner. When Matt is kidnapped, Brigid joins the search for her husband with the police.

Plottner and others are also looking for Matt but their intentions might not be motivated to finding him safely.

Brad Parks packs in the mystery and suspense while writing well-drawn characters, and he packs the action with a lot of twists and turns that will keep the reader sucked in and guessing in this excellent thriller.

Another spell-binding roller coaster of a story from Brad Parks. Quantum physicist Matt Bronik believes he's on the cusp of some ground breaking research in quantum mechanics, but when he starts to develop mysterious and puzzling seizures, doctors have no idea what's wrong with him. Could his research with a particular virus be the cause? When Matt goes missing after a seizure, veteran detective Emmett Webster is assigned the case. With each day that passes, the case becomes more complicated and the suspects multiply in what is now a kidnapping case. What Emmett can't figure out is why Matt was kidnapped, but he's determined to find him and won't give up even if he has to fight the DOD and the federal agents.

There is a lot of quantum mechanics discussed in this story, but Mr. Parks breaks it down for the average reader to understand. If you enjoy science and physics in particular, this book will delight you. With the POV switching between Matt's wife, the detective and a billionaire, there's a lot to absorb in the book. The beginning of the story is a little dry as the stage is set, but events soon ramp up and I couldn't put the book down to find out what happened. Who had orchestrated this kidnapping and why was the DOD so intent of keeping Matt's lab under lock and key?

I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy and all opinions are my own.

I loved this book and read it in one sitting. I was familiar with the locations and places in the story so it became as almost a movie in my mind. Very well done.

Matt Bronik, physicist and professor at Dartmouth College, is on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough. It's one that could potentially earn him the coveted Nobel prize. All of that changes, when he begins to have fits that can't be explained by medical doctors and then he is subsequently kidnapped by Chinese men pretending to be EMT's who are supposed to be there to take him to the hospital after suffering another fit. Detective Emmett Webster is assigned Bronik's missing persons case and it's like nothing he's ever dealt with. Bronik's postdoc student claims she's entangled with him on a cellular level due to being infected by the virus he was working on, multi-millionaire Sean Plottner, has his hands all over the case as a potential new boss for Bronik, and there are a host of other co-workers and possible suspects that Emmett has to deal with in order to get to the bottom of the case. Will he be able to find Matt Bronik before it's too late or will Matt's life's work fall into the wrong hands?

Earlier this year I read Blake Crouch's Recursion and it was my first foray into Science Fiction. Interference by Brad Parks has similar themes and was equally as interesting as Recursion. I enjoyed the police procedural aspects to this novel and thought the two genres were expertly combined. Each of the characters were well thought and fleshed out. I appreciated the fact that while some chapters were heavily scientific, others focused more on human interest and the detective work. It was very well balanced.