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PoorMonger

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23. The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Thu May 17, 2018, 09:30 AM
May 2018

“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.

Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

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There is definitely romantic tension underlying the basic art story. northoftheborder May 2018 #6
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Exactly hermetic May 2018 #10
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It is a true story hermetic May 2018 #11
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IQ by Joe Ide PoorMonger May 2018 #18
Sounds really good hermetic May 2018 #19
Really likeable main character PoorMonger May 2018 #22
I just got this ebook from my library PennyK May 2018 #24
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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch PoorMonger May 2018 #23
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