I recently read
Interface by Neal Stephenson (I'm afraid I forget the co-author's name).
Essentially, it's a conspiracy theory novel about the presidential race, and yet it unfolds its conspiracy in a reasonably believable way. There's some contrivances, though nothing that affects the plot if it were excised.
The book's really good - well-paced, intelligent, punchy, surprising and wraps up nicely at the end. Stephenson has a tendency to start his books with a variety of different unrelated threads and bring them together (which stays intact here, to excellent effect) and to end rather weakly, focusing away from the drama the characters have loosed on the world to their own private struggle, which thankfully doesn't carry on here.
I found it very interesting that even up to the climax it was by no means guaranteed what would happen - so many threads were in motion, so many hadn't been paid off, and so many threads in the book had veered the story off in unexpected ways that it was very exciting to find out what exactly happens. The drama of the presidential race worked well as a focus for the tension as well.
All in all, an excellent thriller.
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