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Absolutely un-put-downable. This is one of those razor-sharp books that follow through a line of storytelling reasoning, slams the foot on the gas, adding ALL the relevant AND gloriously detailed details to make it pop (mostly real information, well researched) and yet also sticks to its storytelling guns to drive home a very hard point.

This could have been a simple, fun, popcorn ride of a novel, and indeed it absolutely begins that way. This regular guy has lived with a peace-loving talent for always seeing seconds in to the future, but when he looks a cop wrong and mouths off, EVERYTHING goes wrong.

I won't spoil it, but this has some of the very best action scenes I've ever read in a book. It's fantastic fun from start to finish for just that, alone.

But what sets this book apart is the OTHER layers. The layers that show a great little juxtaposition between seeing myopically, or in this case, only a few seconds ahead of time, versus relying on a grand systemic edifice of cultural contingencies that that is, if anything, even blinder, and ANOTHER, almost completely hidden juxtaposition, that rails against the necessity that got us all here in the first place.

For, without spoiling, the consequences of such a small inflexibility was both fluid, deadly, and amazingly pertinent to us all.


We, as a human species, are watching the death of critical thinking in real time. This book makes that extremely clear, as if we didn't need further proof.

At least this book had the glorious benefit of being wildly entertaining, smart (unlike the things going on in the real world), and actual FICTION.

100% recommend for thriller and SF fans. This one OUGHT to get tons of traction. Hell, I think it'd make a BRILLIANT high-budget mini-series. Keep everything, and watch the sparks fly.

My synesthesia smelled cold, hard steel, gunpowder, and even though I don't know what dumdums smell like, I get this impression of an air blast to the face.


Personal note:
If anyone reading my reviews might be interested in reading my own SF, I'm going to be open to requests. Just direct message me in goodreads or email me on my site. I'd love to get some eyes on my novels.

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