Blind Spots
A Novel
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
"The pace is fast, the body count significant, the loopholes minor. All this tech-enabled police procedural lacks is a Lennie Briscoe zinger at the beginning. Two guns—I mean thumbs—up." –Wall Street Journal
A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated.
Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see?
Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn’t believe her—until a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists—and with the bodies piling up—Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can’t even trust his own eyes.
Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author of Darktown and The Last Town on Earth, delivers an unputdownable crime novel about one man's search for truth in a world of surveillance and disinformation that’s all too recognizable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seven years before the opening of this excellent near-future mystery from Mullen (Midnight Atlanta), life changed irrevocably when a catastrophic event, the Blinding, led to global human blindness. Technology has been developed to give people vision: small metal discs called vidders have been implanted on almost everyone, sending visual data to their brains. But that life-saving and sanity-saving workaround comes under threat. Homicide detective Mark Owens, who works in an unnamed American city, lands a case in which the killer, who fatally shot scientist Ray Jensen, was apparently invisible to the vidder of the colleague who was with Jensen at the time. That suggests that someone may have found a way to hack vidders, a development with frightening implications. Owens investigates, suspecting that Jensen's murder connects to his research on enhancing vidders so that the cerebral cortex could better process the information they provide. Mullen makes his imagined future plausible by sweating the details. For example, after the Blinding, strangulation murders dominated, because the killers could be sure of the result. Fans of P.D. James's Children of Men will be enthralled.
