Being a doctor post Covid is hard, and extremely under-appreciated. Feeling this stress is Dr. Mark Lin, a hard working and compassionate doctor who tries to always do what is right for his patients. But when not one but two patients die while on his watch, and by computer errors, Dr. Lin can’t help but wonder if it was his mistake or Dr. Lucifer’s.
There has been a recent crippling string of cyber attacks done by the elusive hacker known as Lucifer’s Worm. Who is targeting corporations that many people depended on such as banks, Amazon, and courthouses which lead to a cyber type pandemic. Lucifer hopes these attacks will bring the world to chaos. Soon Mike discovers that he is Lucifer’s newest target, or more like his patients, who end up dying due to the hacker changing their medical files or medications leading to their deaths. Can Mike outwit this cyber foe before more innocent people die or will Mike be the next to be deleted?

People tend to glorify doctors but don’t see all the stress of working in the medical field. And for the doctors that truly work ethically, what would happen if they made a mistake? It would most likely result in someone’s death. This book makes you think of all aspects of death and stresses that envelop those that are in this line of work. However, if you do not work in health care this book does seem to be a bit bogged down in medical jargon which I think takes away from the storyline. I also could do with a brief nod to Covid but I feel that the amount of context that it took up in this book versus what the book was about could have been edited back. I do like how it shows as a society how we rely on technology too much in our day to day decisions and how one person or cyber attack could take down countries.
*Thank you to Anthony Lee, Netgalley and AuthorBuzz for the ARC copy. I am freely leaving my honest review.