Casey Shenk is a delivery driver who refills vending machines around Georgia. He takes interest in current affairs and in his spare time writes a blog. He is fascinated by a story, the highjacking of the MV Baltic Venture by pirates. Using open sources anyone can find on the internet, Casey tries to find what is going on that mainstream media is not telling the public.
The plot for this book is very good. It is a good conspiracy tale that builds nicely as different characters are fed into the story. It is rather involved and gets you thinking because it is so plausible. This novel is about geopolitics, terrorism and rogue elements fighting for their cause.
Casey puts all of these little snips of open source information found on the internet together and joins up the dots. Through his persistence and research, Casey finds out who the pirates are and what is really going on.
I enjoyed reading Open Source because although this is fiction, it is not far fetched. These sort of dodgy dealings by rogue elements go on all the time. I got to the end of this book and thought, "I wonder just how much of this goes on?" as the general public sleeps happily in their beds. This is a good thought provoking read that I will vote 4 stars.
Open Source is available as a 2047 KB Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2010.
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