Golden State
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Publisher Description
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'A prescient, devastating commentary on humanity’s disintegrating attachment to reality and truth... Winters has written a 1984 for the 21st century. Not just a thrilling book, but an important one'
Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and TV series Wayward Pines
'A dystopia for our times' Financial Times
‘A wry commentary on our current era’ Guardian
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Welcome to Golden State, where the worst crime you can commit is to lie.
Laz Ratesic is a veteran of the State’s special police. Those in power rely on Laz to discover the full and final truth.
But when a man falls from a roof in suspicious circumstances, it sets in motion a terrifying series of events which will shatter Laz’s world for ever.
Because when those in control of the truth decide to twist it, only those with the power to ask questions can fight back.
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Golden State is an ambitious and frighteningly timely novel set in a world where everything is recorded and no one can be trusted. For anyone who loved The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Station Eleven.
'Pacy and compelling' SFX
'Golden State is fascinating, cutting and ultimately inspiring' SciFiNow
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This disappointing postapocalyptic thriller from Edgar winner Winters (Underground Airlines) boasts an irresistible setup: in the near future, California is a sovereign state governed by absolute truth, and telling a lie can result in jail time or worse. Laszlo Ratesic, a veteran police officer whose innate ability to know when someone is lying helps him piece together unsolved crimes, investigates the death of a construction worker who fell off of a roof during a job. The seemingly accidental fatality is filled with anomalies, which leads Ratesic and the young female officer he's mentoring to uncover a grand-scale conspiracy with staggering implications. While the story, in which every second of the populace's lives is meticulously recorded, is tonally comparable to Orwell's 1984, the thematic impact simply isn't there. Some of the societal elements seem contrived, such as how every citizen must archive every single life event in a journal, and the reveal at the end is too nebulous to be completely effective. Winters's exploration into the nature of truth will grip many readers, but this ambitious novel misses the mark.)
