Read by Bradford Hastings

Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted-for a price. Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone's death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago. The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he is forced to confront his past, the choices he has made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for. Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion. "A fascinating, compulsively readable thriller." "Entertainingly mindbending." "Audaciously clever…vivid, thought provoking, and unsettling." "Hastings's sarcastic narration is a fantastic complement to the nameless narrator's tone as he's prone to snark…Hastings's narration and the weird story itself combine for an engaging performance that is sure to stick with listeners. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." "[A] genre-bending thriller…Good pacing and clever plotting keep the pages turning." "Imagine Donna Tartt's The Secret History getting a good edit at last, and you glimpse something of this book's occult power. Essential reading for the gathering dark." "A fresh and morbid twist on the old sci-fi/occult idea of hacking the universe's mathematical source code." "Prompts readers to consider the philosophical implications of life and death itself." "[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller." "Integrates philosophy, first love, Beatles music, jaw-dropping science fiction, and the four stages of civilization…into a fast-paced, existential, mind-expanding thriller-a thoroughly enjoyable read." "A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare…A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero."

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