Afterlife

Sakey, Marcus

ISBN 10: 153668273X ISBN 13: 9781536682731

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2017

Synopsis

An instant Wall Street Journal bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

Between life and death lies an epic war, a relentless manhunt through two worlds...and an unforgettable love story.

The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion—a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave.

He wakes without a scratch.

The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He’s relieved to spot other people—until he sees they’re carrying machetes.

Welcome to the afterlife.

Claire McCoy stands over the body of Will Brody. As head of an FBI task force, she hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in weeks. A terrorist has claimed eighteen lives and thrown the nation into panic.

Against this horror, something reckless and beautiful happened. She fell in love...with Will Brody.

But the line between life and death is narrower than any of us suspect—and all that matters to Will and Claire is getting back to each other.

From the author of the million-copy bestselling Brilliance Trilogy comes a mind-bending thriller that explores our most haunting and fundamental question: What if death is just the beginning?

About this title

Review:

“Edgar finalist Sakey follows his Brilliance Trilogy with a remarkably conceived and passionately realized supernatural thriller....Balancing lyric romance and altruistic self-sacrifice with horrifying scenes and wrenching violence, Sakey comes up with a fascinating answer to the eternal question of why humans exist.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 

“Sakey follows up his incredible Brilliance Trilogy with an otherworldly stand-alone thriller about a subterranean war between gods and monsters...employ[ing] all his storytelling gifts to craft a noodle-bender of the first order. A love story enmeshed in a twisty thriller that peels back the universe to see what lies beneath.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

 

“AFTERLIFE is simultaneously a beautiful love story, a grim tale of apocalyptic conflict, and an opportunity for an insightful writer to ruminate on the eternal verities. Great appeal across genres.” —Booklist (starred review)

 

“Sakey has crafted an original and unpredictable tale that puts a different spin on the battle between good and evil.” —Associated Press

 

“Sakey has crafted a compulsive thriller....His world-building is pretty epic, and the community of characters...reminded me of Stephen King’s The Stand. It’s amazing what a skillful writer with ‘a sense of theater’ and a brilliant imagination can do.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

“AFTERLIFE drags the reader along at a breathless pace....Excellent, addictive, and eminently re-readable fiction.” —RT Book Reviews (Five Star Gold review)

 

“Imagine the love story in the film Ghost dropped into The Matrix. Astonishing.” —Don Winslow

 

“Truly incredible. An epic, original vision. My brain is still bent.” —Blake Crouch

 

PRAISE FOR MARCUS SAKEY

 

“Ridiculously good...Sakey is the master of the mindful page turner.” —Gillian Flynn

 

“One of our best storytellers.” —Michael Connelly

 

“It’s depth and intelligence and passion and emotion that set Sakey apart.” —Lee Child

About the Author:

Marcus Sakey’s books have sold more than a million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. For more information, visit www.MarcusSakey.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 153668273X
• ISBN 13: 9781536682731
• Binding: MP3 CD