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Book SynopsisYOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.
‘Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel’
NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline
This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you...
An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other - Prophet - is targeting innocent people. But nobody knows who created it, or why.
Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Lieutenant Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear.
Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future.
‘Prophet is a blast’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘A thrilling dystopian novel’
TIME
***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR***
Trade ReviewFabulous… It’s present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel with real people you can care about. And it’s a page-turner -- NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline
Prophet is a blast * Sunday Times *
A thrilling dystopian novel * TIME *
Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart.
I loved it -- CHRIS WHITAKER, author of We Begin at the End
You are in for a treat… If you like shows such as Twin Peaks, Stranger Things and Lost you will no doubt like this * Scotsman *
Skilfully constructed, its authors deploying the grammar of science fiction with ease and achieving moments of grim humour as well as horror * Times Literary Supplement *
Prophet promises to bring back everything you lost and now yearn for...
Proper science fiction - self-aware, funny, ruthlessly propulsive, full of invention... I loved it -- M. John Harrison, author of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
A fast-paced techno thriller... High-octane... The novel is immense fun, a work of exceptional storytelling skill and stylistic panache * Guardian *
A madcap sci-fi romp, which combines a bananas plot with some
very touching writing on grief, nostalgia and love * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* *
Prophet is a sui generis and rather wonderful collaboration between Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché * New York Times *
