**From the Pulitzer Prize -winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.** In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, dis
This Eden
โ Scribed by Ed O'Loughlin
- Book ID
- 100438252
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 683 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781487005696
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Ed O'Loughlin returns with an exhilarating techno-thriller and modern spy novel reminiscent of William Gibson and the golden age of international espionage fiction.
Michael is out of his depth. The closest he ever came to working in tech was when he rode a delivery bike for a food app in Vancouver. Yet when his coder girlfriend dies, he is inexplicably headhunted by sinister tech mogul Campbell Fess, who transplants him to Silicon Valley. There, a reluctant female spy named Aoife lures him into the hands of Towse, an enigmatic war-gamer, who tricks them both into joining his quest to save the world, and reality itself, from the deadliest weapon ever invented.
Hunted by government agents and corporate goons, manipulated at every turn by the philosophising Towse, Aoife and Michael find themselves in an intercontinental chase which will take them from California to New York, from the forests of Uganda to Jerusalem,...
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