Recursion by Blake Crouch Also by this author: Dark Matter
Published by Crown/Archetype on June 11, 2019
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Technological, Thrillers
Pages: 336
Format: eARC
Source: the publisher
Barry Sutton, New York City police officer, has been called to the case involving False Memory Syndrome. The victims suffer with memories of a life they never had, eventually going mad. As he investigates, the culprit is not a disease, but a technology that quickly becomes an uncontrollable weapon in the hands of man.
Helena Smith is a neuroscientist who ha dedicated her life to creating technology that allows us to preserves moments of our past. Dementia has hit her close to home and she struggles to find a means of capturing life's most important moments before it's too late.
When these two meet, not by chance or fate, but a deliberate plan to alter history, they must work together to defeat those whose efforts have begin to unfurl the very world in which we live, one memory at a time.
My summary just touches the surface of the enormity Crouch has crafted in this truly complex techno-thriller. Any in-depth exploration of what transpires is certain to spoil the reading experience, one that will quite literally twist and distort anything and everything you have thought to believe is possible. What seems like a pretty straightforward premise is instead a maze of complex, yet not heavy or overly scientific, sheer genius.
Crouch excels at forces his reader to think in a way no other novel has (that I’m aware of, at least!). This man is absolutely brilliant, for I instantly got caught up in this truly intense read, so obsessed that I wanted to read it during every waking moment. Crouch has one of my “insta-buy” authors for some time now, and this latest work is a perfect example of why; he takes readers to places they’ve never seen before, on a journey in which there are no pauses to catch your breath, no emergency exits, only an ultimate mind-*bleep* of an experience. Don’t pick it up unless you have dedicated time to read it. Cancel all appointments. Call off work. Say goodbye to your family for the time being. You won’t regret it. Highly, highly recommended.
