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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Vince Peersman’s Vault, epidemiologist Noah Mercer analyzes outbreaks in a near-future world where billions spend much of their lives inside Vault, a virtual reality platform created by technology billionaire Adrian Valek. At night, Noah races there as Nightshift, until Brazilian racer Thiago Pereira disappears and his profile begins vanishing from old competition records. Noah turns to Vanta, a hacker, who discovers entire Vault communities have been erased in the same way. Their search intersects with investigative journalist Rosa Alvarez, who has been tracing unexplained deaths that official systems seem determined to remove from public record. The trail eventually points to Strategic Continuity director Gabriel Schultz, whose reach extends into outbreak surveillance and Vault itself. As Noah follows the missing people behind the statistics, he realizes someone is engineering disappearance on a terrifying scale.
Vince Peersman’s Vault is an incredible dystopian thriller that offers a frighteningly plausible future. Noah is a protagonist we want to root for, with his epidemiology background giving his search for missing people an unusual angle on the lives inside statistics. I love how Rosa’s distrust of digital records grows naturally from the scratched analog recorder her father gave her as a child, making magnetic tape unexpectedly valuable. The world-building is excellent too, such as the abandoned municipal archive with moldy filing cabinets where paper records survive systems capable of rewriting history. Vanta is terrific when she gets former intelligence operative Mara Vance into an app-rental car under the name Pavel, a divorced dentist with excellent credit. Well written and totally immersive, readers who enjoy intelligent dystopian fiction will adore this book.
