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Prophet (Hardcover)
Helen Macdonald, Sin Blaché
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From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York
Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first
time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a
tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer
romance--set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.
Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since
their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American
Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and
rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the
truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam.
When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a
mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate,
setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of
their lives. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and
Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in
Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the pair begins to uncover how
and why people's fondest memories are being weaponized against them
by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the
unlikely twosome battles this strange new reality, Prophet's
victims' memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre forms:
favorite games, beloved pets, fairground rides, each more
malevolent than the next. Prophet is like no enemy Adam and Rao -
or the world - have ever come up against. A tension-shot odd-couple
romance, an unflinching send-up of corporate corruption, and a
genre-bending tour de force, Prophet is a triumph of storytelling
by a new writing duo with a thrilling future.
YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON. This is Prophet. It
knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest
memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And
what do they want? 'Present day science fiction that feels like the
best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN An all-American diner appears
overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and
inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real
world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy.
More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and
other treasured mementos of the past. And the deaths quickly
follow. Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling
innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other.
But nobody knows who created it, or why. Sunil Rao seems a
surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the
former agent is the antithesis of his partner Colonel Adam
Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique
ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and
people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who
truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they
battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to
defend what they both hold most dear. For Prophet can weaponise the
past. But only love will protect the future.
'Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the
best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR
DEADLIEST WEAPON. This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest.
It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy
you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American
diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly
lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection
to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic
flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys,
fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past.
And the deaths quickly follow. Something is bringing these memories
to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is
a weapon like no other. But nobody knows who created it, or why.
Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and
unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner
Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has
the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects,
words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the
only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now,
as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than
ever to defend what they both hold most dear. For Prophet can
weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future.
'Brilliant . . . hypnotically enthralling . . . funny and full of
heart' Chris Whitaker 'A crackling, shape-shifting romp' C Pam
Zhang 'Ruthlessly propulsive, full of invention . . . I loved it' M
John Harrison
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