Thomas,K. Keith,J. The Octopus. 1996
Thomas, Kenn and Keith, Jim. The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death
of Danny Casolaro. Portland: Feral House, 1996. 181 pages.
Danny Casolaro was found with his wrists slashed in a motel bathtub
in Martinsburg, West Virginia on August 10, 1991. He was a struggling writer
and something of a romantic. Recently he had also styled himself as an
investigator, contacting a variety of spooks-turned-victims and weaving
their stories into an "Octopus" theory. This would be the book of his
career: Danny as dragon-slayer. Now it was a year later, and documents
were missing from Casolaro's motel room. Was it suicide or murder?
This book involves Inslaw, Inc. and its Promis software, as well as
Michael Riconosciuto, a child prodigy who became a secret agent and drug
pusher, and still keeps a bevy of fringe journalists busy by dispatching
leads from his jail cell. Mix in several years of affidavits flying like
shrapnel, mostly due to Inslaw's reasonable claim that Promis was stolen
by the Justice Department. Add Riconosciuto's unreasonable claim that he
hacked Promis, making it so magical that U.S. intelligence tried to install
it everywhere as a Trojan horse. Include more prominent names than you can
shake a stick at, each with loose but spooky connections to everyone else,
and throw in a few more investigative trails that end in corpses. Ultimately
it just doesn't fly: any philosophy major can tell you that something this
big is very nearly the same as nothing at all.
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