This Eden
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
“This Eden is a delight, a rollicking ride that never lets up, with a surprising — and emotionally rich — ending.” — Quill & Quire (Starred Review)
Michael Atarian 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 a sinister tech mogul and transplanted to Silicon Valley. There, a reluctant spy named Aoife lures him into the hands of an enigmatic war-gamer who tricks them both into joining his quest to save the world.
Hunted by government agents and corporate goons, and manipulated at every turn, Aoife and Michael find themselves in an intercontinental chase that takes them from California to New York, from the forests of Uganda to Jerusalem, Gaza, Alexandria, and Paris, and to a final showdown with the truth in Dublin.
Propulsive and richly entertaining, This Eden updates the classic spy novel for a world under mortal threat from cyber-warfare, feral money, runaway technology, and a cynical onslaught on truth itself.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The spy novel gets a 21st-century update in this fast-paced thriller. When engineering student Michael Atarian’s aimless life gets upended by personal tragedy, he abruptly leaves rainy Vancouver behind to take an entry-level job with an omnipresent tech conglomerate. From there, Michael is catapulted into a shadowy underworld alongside Irish corporate spy Aoife and her mysterious boss, criss-crossing the globe in pursuit of the secret behind a new form of cryptocurrency that could potentially...okay, we don’t want spoil it. This Eden moves with the hyperkinetic speed of a Jason Bourne film mixed with the punky dystopian feel and imaginative leaps of cyberpunk classics like William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Ed O’Loughlin’s last novel, the historical mystery Minds of Winter, was nominated for the Giller Prize—we may need to come up with a whole new honour for his wild and philosophical follow-up.