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Editorial Review:
While his girlfriend travels to Berlin to testify against the most dangerous TekLords, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is called to Brazil to speak to a witness and discovers that he has been tricked into leaving his lover's side. Reprint.
Tek Vengeance Reviews:
A convoluted book that is best read right before bed 
2008-11-02 - Once again Jake Cardigan and his partner Sid Gomez are on a case that ultimately involves the Tek cartel. Tek is an electronic drug that connects directly to the brain and when overused, leads to death by the user wasting physically and mentally wasting away. The members of the Tek cartel that manufacture and deliver the illegal drug are ruthless in the pursuit of their business interests.
Jean Marie Sparey is a young woman dying as a consequence of her use of Tek. Jean Marie and her father know Jake and her father was reported as having been killed years before. Her last wish is to see her father again and she believes that he is still alive. She contacts Jake and he is the only person that she will talk with concerning news she has about her father. This takes Jake away when he was scheduled to escort Beth, the woman he loves to a conference in Berlin. Beth is working on an antidote to Tek, so she has been targeted for assassination.
When an explosive android duplicate of Jake kills Beth, he naturally seeks revenge. At this point, the story goes extremely convoluted, plot lines bounce from one location to another, Jake and Sid follow distinct tracks, people are introduced and the conversations seem to be slightly modified repeats. It closes with a "climactic" scene that is not worthy of the word.
This book is one of those that is just interesting enough to read yet not so interesting that it will keep you up reading it. I read it over several nights as the book that I read in the last few minutes as I am winding my mind down so that I could go to sleep.
Yet another enjoyable read in the world of "Tek" 
1998-07-01 - I'll give this to William Shatner, he does pull a surprise or two out of his hat at times. This started out as another normal Tek novel and I thought that it was going to be another semi-predictable yet still enjoyable story. But then he pulls a major event about a quarter of the way through the book that was hard to believe. For the rest of the book, I kept waiting for him to explain how what was done was not really the truth. I expected him to undo it. In fact I expected it so much that I never really believed it was real until I finished the novel. At that point, I believed it and was shocked. I was also pleased, pleased that he did not cheapen his plot nor did he patronize the readers. Good job! This is the fourth novel in the series.
