A woman dives into her husband’s memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.
Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It’s the loneliest she’s ever felt in her life.
When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn’t losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she’s told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husband’s mind, probing the depths of his memories in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last. But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husband’s life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.
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“If Binge’s well-reviewed previous novel, Ascension (2023), was Lovecraftian, his latest work is straight out of Philip K. Dick… Binge transports Dick’s nightmare landscapes, surrealism, and paranoia to his native United Kingdom, which adds a soupçon of Agatha Christie to the mix. Dissolution, then, is a hat trick of a novel, combining science fiction, mystery, and adventure.”
– Booklist
“Dissolution is an outstanding puzzle box of a novel. It’s everything I love in fiction: thrilling, intelligent sci-fi with a touch of horror and a triumphant conclusion that made me want to punch the air in delight. As soon as I was done I wanted to read it all over again just to see how it all worked. It’s that good.”
– Gareth Brown, bestselling author of The Book of Doors
“A taut techno-thriller written with compassion and intelligence. This is an intricately plotted and – from a craft perspective – a technically difficult novel to write. And yet, Binge creates a compelling narrative that takes the reader on a page-turning journey through both time and memory.”
– T.R. Napper, author of 36 Streets and Ghost of the Neon God
Taste the very first page
TRANSCRIPT NO. 273: Margaret Webb
DATE STAMP: 11 AUG. 2021
11 Hours, 0 Minutes, and 0 Seconds Until Dissolution
“You’ve got eleven hours until reset. You need to tell me exactly what happened.”
“Where am I?”
“We’ve been over this, Maggie. It’s not important. The only thing that’s important is that you focus on me.”
“What do you mean “it’s not important”? I don’t know where I am. I don’t know who you are. How can that possibly not be important? “
“I’m Hassan. Do you remember me?”
“No . . . I mean, yes. I think. The name rings a bell. “
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