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Published Jun 2019
336 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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Memory makes reality. That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome - a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease - a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it - and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.
"Crouch effortlessly integrates sophisticated philosophical concepts - such as the relationship of human perceptions of what is real to actual reality - into a complex and engrossing plot. Michael Crichton's fans won't want to miss this one." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Crouch delivers a bullet-fast narrative and raises the stakes to a fever pitch...An exciting, thought-provoking mind-bender." - Kirkus Reviews
"An action-packed, brilliantly unique ride that had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page. A fantastic read." - Andy Weir, author of The Martian
"Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner - fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising, and determined to explode the boundaries of what a thriller can be." - Karin Slaughter, author of Pieces of Her
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Blake Crouch is a novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter and the international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a teleivsion series for FOX. He also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.
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