Metaphor

Ben Kendrick has spent thirty-four years keeping secrets for the CIA. Faced with a terminal diagnosis, he makes one final decision: a Swiss clinic, a signed consent form and an ending on his own terms.

Then he wakes in a hotel room in Oldham.

He has no idea how he crossed Europe. His name is already dead in the systems he once trusted. And the men arriving at the hotel have no intention of letting him walk away.

An unknown woman offers an escape route and an impossible claim: he is not dying.

Behind his stolen death lies Metaphor, a classified programme capable of moving people across distances no human body should survive. The people controlling it regard Kendrick as an asset. Whatever intervened during his transfer has other ideas.

Hunted through Britain, Ben must uncover why he was chosen and decide whether the woman who helped steal his life can be trusted to help him reclaim it.

He knows how to fight the men pursuing him. What travelled back with him is another matter.

Metaphor is a science fiction espionage thriller about power, identity and the price of remaining human.