A Better World by Marcus Sakey

Title: A Better World 
Author: Marcus Sakey 
Type: Novel 
Genre: Dystopian Fantasy 
Series: Yes, Brilliance Saga #2 
Pages: 380 
Copyright: 2014 
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer 
Rating: 4 out of 5

Summary: from good reads
The brilliants changed everything.

Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities. Supermarket shelves stand empty. 911 calls go unanswered. Fanatics are burning people alive.

Nick Cooper has always fought to make the world better for his children. As both a brilliant and an adviser to the president of the United States, he’s against everything the terrorists represent. But as America slides toward a devastating civil war, Cooper is forced to play a game he dares not lose—because his opponents have their own vision of a better world.

And to reach it, they’re willing to burn this one down.

From Marcus Sakey, “the master of the mindful page turner” (Gillian Flynn) and “one of our best storytellers” (Michael Connelly), Book Two of the Brilliance Saga is a relentless thrill ride that will change the way you look at your world—and the people around you.

Feelings: 
I remember back when I first started reading the series I thought Cooper was an ass. He is still an ass in many many ways but the story is so good I just don't care that the main character is full of himself. Marcus Sakey has managed to make me love a story were the good guy is confused and always jumping from one conclusion to the next and yes trying to do the right thing and failing miserably. And the bad guy well you are never sure who it really is.

This book at times had me wondering about our world and it's safety. Going to the grocery story and having them be out of what you need is very frustrating but it doesn't happen. Reading about stores with empty shelves is the modern worlds nightmare. What would you do in the zombie appocolipse, the plan characters made when playing a game years before comes into play in this story and we see the characters struggling to make hard decisions.

I highly recommend this book. It was excellent.