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The Gone World

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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch is a thrilling blend of science fiction and crime, centred on NCIS special agent Shannon Moss. She investigates the gruesome murder of a Navy SEAL's family while attempting to prevent a looming apocalypse. The story intricately weaves time travel and existential mystery as Moss journeys across alternate futures to uncover the truth.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by mind-bending science fiction with a mix of time travel and crime investigation. Its gripping narrative weaves together a thrilling mystery and existential themes, ideal for those who appreciate complex plots and atmospheric storytelling.

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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...

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

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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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch is praised for its gripping blend of science fiction and thriller elements, providing a complex narrative filled with time travel and deep philosophical questions. Reviewers highlight the intricately woven plot and the intense atmosphere that builds suspense throughout the story. The novel is noted for its exploration of existential themes and the fine balance between emotional depth and action-packed sequences.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780425278901

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 February 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: G P Putnam's Sons

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 306g

Pages: 400

About the Author

Tom Sweterlitsch is the author of The Gone World and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. He has a Master's Degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter.

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