Dare to Know
A Novel
by James Kennedy
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Pub Date 14 Sep 2021 | Archive Date 7 Jan 2022
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Description
“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix.”—Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of Water
This mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller is 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's 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’s forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for.
Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this thought-provoking thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its shocking conclusion.
A Note From the Publisher
Audience:
Adult (18 and up) readers of near-future dystopian speculative fiction, pop science, and mysteries/thrillers, especially with a dystopian element;
Readers who gravitate towards movies by Charlie Kaufman, Alex Garland, and Darron Aronofsky
Adult (18 and up) readers of near-future dystopian speculative fiction, pop science, and mysteries/thrillers, especially with a dystopian element;
Readers who gravitate towards movies by Charlie Kaufman, Alex Garland, and Darron Aronofsky
Advance Praise
Advance Praise for Dare to Know:
“[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller....Readers with a taste for the synchronicity of the cosmic with the commonplace are sure to be entertained.”—Publishers Weekly
"Time shifting from present to past, and possibly the future, Kennedy seamlessly integrates philosophy, first love, Beatles music, jaw-dropping science fiction and the four stages of civilization, and turns it all into a fast-paced, existential, mind-expanding thriller—a thoroughly enjoyable read." —Paul Dinh-McCrillis for Shelf Awareness
"A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero." —Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of Water
“Philip K. Dick energy infusing Death of a Salesman emotional timbre....I loved it."—Kieron Gillen, author of The Wicked + The Divine and Once & Future
“Dare to Know is something of a mind-twister reminiscent of Philip K. Dick.”—SF2 Concatenation
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781683692607 |
| PRICE | US$22.99 (USD) |
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