"The significance of being a survivor, in the case of Air France
Flight 801, for a long time lay in the simple fact that there should
have been no survivors." Catherine Bach did survive, barely suffering
a scratch. She hates the word "miracle," yet it feels that way at
first. She returns to life as it was before the plane went down. The
biotech startup she'd built from an idea to a multi-million dollar
valuation continues its meteoric rise. But then things begin to go
very wrong. Glitches in tests that are meant to run smoothly, design
delays, security breaches, impatient investors. Catherine has a
growing sense that her good fortune is spent, that the universe might
be betting against her. And then comes the late-night call,
from one of the other survivors. He has a story to tell, a warning he
says, about his own troubles, a life in ruins, his luck run out. And
all at the hands, he insists, of a mysterious other, resembling him
perfectly right down to the features of his face. Madness,
Catherine thinks. Or she tries to think as a mystery hedge fund
launches a takeover attempt, run by a woman nobody seems to know but
who is said to bear an uncanny resemblance . . . to Catherine.
Catherine has always believed in an ordered, rational world--more
Stephen Hawking than Stephen King. But with her life at the brink, she
cannot shake the feeling that her "Rule of Stephens" may no longer
hold. Writing with stinging precision about the knife-edge
balance between what is known and what is believed, Timothy Taylor
bridges the divide between literary fiction and page-turning thriller
in this psychological tale of guilt, doubt and doppelgangers.
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a novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780385687379
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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