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Sign up todayDare to Know
A Novel
Narrator
Bradford Hastings
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Length
8 hours 34 minutes
Language
English
Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller 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 is 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 is forced to confront his past, the choices he has made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for.
Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion.
James Kennedy is the author of The Order of Odd-Fish. Before becoming a writer, he was a computer programmer with a degree in physics and philosophy. Dare to Know is his first adult novel.
Bradford Hastings is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.
Reviews
“A fascinating, compulsively readable thriller.”
“Entertainingly mindbending.”
“Audaciously clever…vivid, thought provoking, and unsettling.”
“[A] genre-bending thriller…Good pacing and clever plotting keep the pages turning.”
“A fresh and morbid twist on the old sci-fi/occult idea of hacking the universe’s mathematical source code."
“Prompts readers to consider the philosophical implications of life and death itself.”
“[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller.”
“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare…A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero.”
“A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment.”
“Hastings’s sarcastic narration is a fantastic complement to the nameless narrator’s tone as he’s prone to snark…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
“Essential reading for the gathering dark.”
“A wholly original novel that’s bound to frustrate just as many as it entrances.”
“A fast-paced, existential, mind-expanding thriller—a thoroughly enjoyable read.”
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