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Remote Control ReviewRemote control is a thriller set in Sendai, Japan. The story begins with the killing of the prime minister of Japan by a bomb which was delivered by an unknown man using a remote control helicopter. The beginning of the story focuses on two men who share a room in a hospital who watch the events unfold on their televisions. Through the commentary by the men and the news reports, the reader is shown the excitement and the uncertainty of the unfolding events. A suspect is named and sightings of the suspect are reported. But, in the next chapter of the book, the men from the hospital drop from the focus and the reader is taken 20 years into the future and the mysterious events surrounding the bombing are discussed. Then in the next chapter, the book jumps backwards in time and resumes in the hours before the bombing. The jumps in time and characters was an interesting, but slightly confusing device to introduce the background of the story from a distance before the main characters are introduced in first person and the plot rapidly takes off.
Once the story resumes, the reader is introduced to Aoyagi who is meeting with an old friend from his high school days. His old group of friends are people who Aoyagi lost touch with, but they are never far from his thoughts. It is from his friend that Aoyagi first learns that he has been caught in something sinister. Soon Aoyagi finds himself being chased by mysterious men who accuse him of killing the prime minister. As the force of a mysterious machine is set in motion against Aoyagi including the police and the electronic eavesdropping pods, Aoyagi is constantly facing close calls as he tries to understand what is happening and to figure out what he can do to prove his innocence.
I really enjoyed Remote Control. I found the translated text to be perhaps simplistic in places, but overall the sentences flowed well. The plot is fast paced and the book became harder and harder to put down and the story began to unfold. The storyline does have some tangents, but I found that Aoyagi's memories of his high school friends served to underline the bonds that remained between Aoyagi and his friends and why they would risk helping him. The tangents also served to humanize Aoyagi which makes him very different from the cold, mysterious machine which is working against him.
The book includes commentary on the Big Brother society that the world has become where personal freedoms have been whittled away in the name of fighting terrorism. In the case of Remote Control, the invasion of privacy is done by pods which are distributed throughout the city which record mobile telephone conversations as well as audio and video from their environment. They were placed in the name of catching a serial killer but were actually used to monitor the citizens in the name of protecting them.
I found the intrusive surveillance state in Remote Control to be very believable in this day and age and that someone who is innocent could be framed to be entirely plausible. However, what I did find less believable was that strangers would risk being sent to prison by helping the accused and that the strangers were able to help him in so many ways and so effectively.
Overall, a page turner and a good book. I am looking forward to reading more from Isaka.Remote Control Overview

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