“A compelling mystery set in a superbly-constructed future world.”
- A Wishing Shelf Book Review
In 2068, Doug Michaels finds his friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug is dumbstruck – what could explain such a violent death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh’s past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.
In the
end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more
about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever could have imagined.
- A Wishing Shelf Book Review
In 2068, Doug Michaels finds his friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug is dumbstruck – what could explain such a violent death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh’s past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.
Among its landmarks are:
- An illness, sensationalized in the media as the “zombie pandemic”.
- A mysterious phrase uttered at the attack on a government
official.
- Josh’s machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret …
if she can only remember.
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