The Drafter
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4.1 • 98 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The Bourne Identity meets Minority Report in this “truly wild ride” (RT Book Reviews) set in a futuristic Detroit—the first in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s Peri Reed Chronicles.
Peri Reed is a Drafter—a special ops agent with the unique ability to jump back forty seconds in time when missions go wrong. But this skill allows her partner, who is responsible for replacing her memory of events, to feed her false memories and set her up as a corrupt agent.
Working with Silas, a broody, intriguing psychologist trying to bring Opti corruption to light, Peri begins to piece her twisted reality together as she flees the organization she once trusted implicitly.
Peri is caught: rebuilding the memory of the night she killed her partner risks her sanity and in trying to put an end to Opti, she is only getting closer to the very faction that wants to see her dead. Can she get her revenge, or will her tenuous grip on reality leave her vulnerable all over again?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Peri Reed, the heroine of this entertaining but preposterous near-future SF thriller from bestseller Harrison (The Witch with No Name), is a "drafter," a spy-like operative with the ability to rewrite short moments in time. Peri must rely on an "anchor," a person who helps her mentally integrate her newly created history without going crazy. Trouble arises when Peri finds she can't trust her current anchor (and boyfriend). Her personality begins to fragment during a mission to recover a list of corrupt operatives within Opti, the time-altering governmental organization she works for, and she must find a way to reintegrate while on the run. Opti is opposed by the Alliance, former Opti agents who believe Opti has gone rogue. Both organizations and Peri cheerily employ any means to achieve what they consider a desirable end, such as using a virus to limit air pollution. Harrison delivers moments of lyrical intensity when the time lines Peri is "drafting" consolidate into a new reality, but the lack of logic and a goofy plot dissipate the tension.
Customer Reviews
A new genre, but the same solid writing & top of the line characters
Harrison's precursor short story is excellent and I can't recommend it highly enough. I have finally found time to read the novel this weekend. And it shines just as brightly. This is a thriller on simmer. A stage is set in the now, but bit by bit we also are told the past. And just as she demonstrated in her Hollows series she has no trouble adroitly juggling the different skeins of yarn in her hands.
If you like thrillers with a SF twist, a cast of characters, and an ongoing story read this.
This author cannot be stopped
Whew! I read this book in 48 hours. I couldn’t put it down. Kim Harrison writes high-stakes like no one else and her treatment of psychology, mental health, romance and human connection is so whole, she validates humanity just by writing us. More!
Drafted - expensive on Apple Books cheaper kindle
Anyone know why this is twice the price on Apple Books? Assume price wrong but on my Apple Books this is 9.99 Vs 4.99 on Amazon Kindle