Scorpion
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
THE GRIPPING CAT-AND-MOUSE THRILLER, PERFECT FOR FANS OF MINORITY REPORT AND BLAKE CROUCH
'Will have you on the edge of your seat' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'An mind-blowing speculative techno thriller with a killer twist!' DIANE JEFFREY
'Mind-bendingly cunning' FINANCIAL TIMES
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All over the world, random people are being brutally assassinated.
Each death is unique, but they all have one thing in common: four numbers branded or carved into the victims' flesh.
What does it mean?
For the brilliant and haunted CIA analyst Quinn Mitchell, it means leaving a safe and predictable desk job as she tries to track down a global serial killer.
What she doesn't know is that nothing about this mission - her handlers, the intelligence, even the laws of cause and effect - can be trusted.
And her target has saved his most shocking murder for last . . .
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'A fast-paced near future thriller that will mess with your head' JAMES OSWALD
'This stunning debut thriller will have you on the edge of your seat' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A cat-and-mouse, edge-of-your-seat, mind-blowing speculative techno thriller with a killer twist!' DIANE JEFFREY
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This stunning near-future thriller from Cantrell (Equinox) takes some truly breathtaking turns. CIA data analyst Quinn Mitchell is sent in pursuit of the Elite Assassin, an apparently unpredictable and unstoppable killer. Readers, meanwhile, are introduced to the inscrutable murderer Ranveer, whose killings efficiently carry out someone else's master plan. Quinn's clever investigation, using neatly extrapolated high-tech gadgets, is fascinating in itself, and, as the CIA receives missives from the future through the time-bending Epoch Index, Quinn's search collides with some darkly fascinating thought experiments. Among them: would a person be justified in killing a nine-month-old baby if told he would grow up to be a terrorist? Quinn is not the only one to grapple with such issues; so must her colleague, quantum physicist Henrietta Yi, whose parents died in a terrorist attack, but who is increasingly worried about how her bosses could use the Epoch Index to create an authoritarian future. Cantrell's drolly caustic prose encourages readers to care about the characters, even as the many surprises make it dangerous to get close to any one of them. The result is as entertaining as it is intellectually and ethically challenging.
