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“ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.”
—ARTHUR C. CLARKE
HELLO, I AM THE TETHER
The Phone Company has been around for a long time. As civilization grew, so did its power, slowly spreading its lines across the continent. Today it’s in everything. It’s in the air around us.
I CAN TRACK YOUR KIDS FOR YOU
Now PCo is building a cell tower in the isolated town of Cracked Rock, Montana, bringing with it infrastructure, opportunity, and the world’s smartest phone: the brand-new Tether.
I CAN SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS
But the Tether isn’t just a phone. It knows everything about you. It can give you anything you want. It can even connect you with the dead.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET CONNECTED
As the Tether digs up the town’s dirtiest skeletons, one father must make a stand to save what’s left of his family, his town, and humanity itself—or succumb to his own desires.
THE TETHER:
I’M NOT TECHNOLOGY
- Sales Rank: #4058414 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.06" w x 6.00" l, 1.36 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 424 pages
About the Author
THE CONSPIRACY
David Jacob Knight has written under many pseudonyms during his writing career, each with their own rich backstory and fake lives. He has endured great hardship with a past publisher, and this experience--along with the difficulties of maintaining multiple personas--has shaped the narrative of his first book, THE PEN NAME. You can interact with DJK on Facebook (facebook.com/DavidJacobKnight) and Twitter (twitter.com/AuthorDJK).
THE TRUTH
Jacob Kier and D.L. Snell are the writing team behind David Jacob Knight. They consider themselves ghostwriters, not because it's an accurate term for what they do, but because it sounds cooler than co-authors. Kier is the founder of Permuted Press, and Snell is a critically acclaimed author from the Pacific Northwest. Learn more at their websites, facebook.com/TheJacobKier and dlsnell.com.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Your Cellphone -- Not Your Friend Anymore
By Holly A. Zaldivar
Stop just for a moment. Where's your cell phone? Next to you? In your pocket? But close at hand, right? Good. The Phone Company just wanted to know.
You're just a step from being addicted, you know. To your cell phone. You already take it everywhere, don't you? Just like the characters in David Jacob Knight's latest fear-fest THE PHONE COMPANY. No, these characters won't be separated from their phones, no matter what. They love their phones, and eventually will do anything these cellular communicators tell them.
And the Apps? Have you heard about the apps? They're just to Die for, sometimes literally. Role playing games where you can be an assassin or soldier, only your role is to score real bodies, not just points. Do you want to have a conversation with someone who's passed away? There's an app for that, too. And let me tell you, those on the "other side" are definitely missing you. How about being a real back seat driver. It's not a turn of a phrase with these phones.
But how, you ask, can all this happen? Well, it's not technology, that's for sure. It's Magic! And Magic can do some mighty amazing things, things I've only scratched the surface of. David Jacob Knight has written a book that begins right with the cell phone near your hand, then magically builds a novel you never expected to read. Before you know it, you've turned every page, the dawn is breaking, and you've never been so glad to see the daylight before, though I bet you check your driveway to make sure there isn't a rotting whale splayed out there.
Yes, you'll be glad for the daylight. But I bet you never look at your cell phone the same way again.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Can you hear me now?
By Patrick S. Dorazio
The Tether. The name drums up an image of something that holds you in place, latches on to you, and links you to others that are also connected in a similar fashion. The Tether in The Phone Company is the name of the latest mobile device being offered by the eponymous organization to their customers. PCo, for short, didn’t make the Tether, but they have taken full advantage of its endless capabilities as a device to connect everyone to each other. Just sign up, get connected, and work to become one of the Top 12 of the PCo family. Its aps are remarkable, giving its customers almost magic-like abilities to peak into the world of their neighbors, to control machinery, and to retrieve virtually any information instantaneously.
PCo has set up shop in Cracked Rock, Montana, building a data center on the cemetery where the town founders have been buried. While there are protests about what they have done, most of the citizens are too excited about the free phones being offered to students and other members of the community to have a problem with it. Cracked Rock is a town that is hurting. Several years earlier a boy went on a shooting spree at the local middle school, tearing the town apart. While this was happening, Steve, one of the teachers in the high school, avoided his kids being victims because they were facing another nightmare at the local hospital: the death of Janice, his wife, due to lung cancer.
Steve and Bill, his best friend and a deputy sheriff in town, are about the only two members of the community not thrilled with the new Tethers and the increased presence of PCo. Both are given free Tethers as public servants, but Steve would rather stick with his old phone that both he and his wife used years before and Bill isn’t interested in agreeing to the background check the Tether requires to grant him access to all the neat law enforcement tools it has to offer.
It doesn’t take long for this thriller to migrate to more of a supernatural horror, with strange events occurring all around town. It seems that everyone is discovering unique aps on their phones, like JJ, Steve’s son, who discovers he can inhabit the bodies of soldiers and rebels doing battle in a variety of wars across the globe. Sarah, Steve’s daughter, realizes she has a popularity ap that not only gauges her popularity against the other girls in her high school, it also provides guidance on what she can do to claw her way to the top of the list.
If you have read the author’s previous work, The Pen Name, it becomes clear very quickly that both these tales inhabit the same eerie world. The mysterious publishing company from the first book pays a brief visit here, and the main character from that tale had been laid off from the phone company prior to being sucked into his own mystery. The author’s prior work seemed a bit more subtle as the world around the main character unraveled in bits and pieces. In Cracked Rock, things seem to tumble down the rabbit hole in a more abrupt fashion, though everyone seems fairly happy with the results. The mysterious Provider, who is behind the all-consuming need to be connected, is spoken about with a reverence bordering on religiously zealotry by the faithful.
This story, like its predecessor, has flavors of Lovecraft mixed in with King and begins as a thriller that migrates more into the realm of supernatural horror before the story is complete. The writing is solid though Steve, the main character, doesn’t feel as strongly developed as Ben was in The Pen Name. Perhaps because it felt like Steve didn’t seem to sense what was going wrong all too quickly in the pages of the story. He seems to be more of a passive reactionary to a great deal of what is happening, at least until everything has gone off the rails entirely. He is unhappy, discontented, but slow to engage with Graham, the ever present PCo representative, and all too willing to hope for the best.
Overall, The Phone Company is still a very intriguing story. It pokes and prods at how worthwhile it is to live in a world where we are hyper-connected to one another, where there is an ap for everything and our lives are on display for everyone via social media. We bemoan our loss of privacy and yet cannot look away, or stop contributing to the deluge of information shared with one another. The book takes that in a supernatural direction, turning the need for connection into a religious fervor that devours everyone who submits.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great conspiracy that mutates into a Lovecraft style horror.
By Craig
*free ebook copy received from author in exchange for an honest review*
I found The Phone Company to be an excellent story and would actually rate it 4 1/2 stars. The plot line was well developed with a superb Lovecraftian style ending.
David Jacob Knight has a wonderful ability to craft true horror. He takes something completely supernatural that feels totally impossible and then intricately weaves it through reality allowing the reader to feel that the story could really be true. At least until the ending when it leaps into its frenetic conclusion. So many of the horrific instances in the book are just exaggerated versions of true technologies and real life situations.
I would have given the story 5 stars had it not been for 2 minor parts. The first was a character's name. One of the female character's name was Aaron. I see that as the male spelling of the name where it should have been Erin. Perhaps this is me being picky? Perhaps I am wrong and it can be used for both genders. Still it had a tendency to confuse me as to who the author was talking about for the first half of the book.
Secondly, I found the very end of the book to be too ambiguous. It left it so that you didn't really know if one of the main characters died or not. It could have been read to have gone either way. I just would have liked to have that one final question answered.
I would highly recommend The Phone Company to all fans of horror stories in the veins of H.P. Lovecraft and fans of Stephen King's books. I would also recommend it to anyone looking to read a great horror book.
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