The Program: A Novel

Gregg Hurwitz

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

The series that started it all!

In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.

Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations.

Tim becomes enmeshed with a diverse band of characters—from the charismatic, messianic leader T. D. Betters to a cult reject burnout to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herself—and finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake: innocent minds—maybe even his own.

Ratings and reviews

I have purchased several hundred books thru Google play. This one, (The Program by Gregg Hurwitz), is pretty much unreadable do to glitches in word spacing, punctuation, etc. .. I have read six of his other books, (the orphan x series). I am glad this isn't the first work of his I had happened upon as I never would have picked up another title. epublisher folks / whomever is in a position to render technical assistance really needs to take a look at this. 👍🙂 I am not sure why my review is being listed as having been posted in the year 1969 either???

The worst proof reading/editing I have ever seen. I couldn't read more than ten pages. How did this thing get published? I liked other stories by the author, Orphan X was an amazingly great book, but I think someone's been getting high instead of editing.

I love the Tim Rackley character, and the story was very good, but it was apparently written on a very tight budget, because they couldn't afford punctuation. There were no quotation marks around the character's speech, so it was difficult to tell what was being said vs. what was narration. There were no apostrophes in contractions, so she'd became shed, which often made you stop and reread to decipher the intended meaning. And whenever there was a new thought interjected in mid-sentence (which happened often), where you would normally use parenthesis or dashes, there was nothing, not even a space between the two words. All in all, it made for much slower reading. It was too consistent to blame on bad proof reading, so all that I can assume is that this was some kind of experiment by Mr. Hurwitz - one that I hope he never repeats.

About the author

Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, and Troubleshooter. He holds a B.A. in English and psychology from Harvard University and a master's degree from Trinity College, Oxford University. He lives in Los Angeles.