This is a dandy police procedural, or detective story if you prefer, by a fine science fiction writer who is obviously very versatile. For a botanist. His original credential. His writing is tight, yet detailed and his characters always engaging.
Not only is the story largely about the Web (hence the title) blogging, email and the ubiquitous pornography, but it tackles the Web’s potential for police surveillance of all, primarily Londoners here, but clearly soon-to-expand to a light pole or Web cam near you.
Very timely, still, considering it was published in 2001, though it did not foresee the rise (and potential menace) of Google and other Web powerhouses to invade what little privacy the supposedly democratic state plans to allow us.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 