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Killer in the Retroscape

- A Near-Future Mystery

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2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree 2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction 2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist for the year's most thought-provoking books In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh's past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s. Among its landmarks are: - An illness, sensationalized in the media as the "zombie pandemic" that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children. - Cryptic communications between Josh and an "after-life specialist" who peddles immortality services. - A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh's death 14 years later. - Josh's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret to his death ... if she can only remember. In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever could have imagined.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781732083516
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 264
  • Published:
  • November 5, 2018
  • Dimensions:
  • 229x152x14 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 358 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: January 4, 2025
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
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Description of Killer in the Retroscape

2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree
2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction

2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist for the year's most thought-provoking books

In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh's past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.

Among its landmarks are:
- An illness, sensationalized in the media as the "zombie pandemic" that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children.
- Cryptic communications between Josh and an "after-life specialist" who peddles immortality services.
- A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh's death 14 years later.
- Josh's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret to his death ... if she can only remember.

In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever could have imagined.

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