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Gallery Books
August 2013
On Sale: August 6, 2013
384 pages
ISBN: 1476711674
EAN: 9781476711676
Kindle: B00A28H7OC
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Mystery | Mystery Paranormal
The brand-new novel from the author of Lucky Bastard and Breathersββone of todayβs very best writersβ (Jonathan Maberry). A young man is having trouble with his identity working as the head of the Investigations Department for the LA bioengineering firm Engineering Genetics Organizations and Systems, or EGOS for short. A quarter of the way into the twenty-first century, EGOS has developed and produced groundbreaking technology in the form of a consumer product called, oddly enough, Egos. This product allows customers to become a fictional character or a dead celebrity for six to eight hours by injecting a DNA-laced cocktail into their brain stem, revolutionizing the concept of role-playing games. When a colleague stumbles upon an anomaly in a group of Egos that the protagonist has been injecting regularly for the past three years, the brass at EGOS waves it off as nothing to be worried about. Except he is exhibiting behaviors that are in line with the reported anomaly. Truth is, heβs started to lose the ability to separate fact from fiction. The more he continues to play the role of someone else, the less of him remains, as the lines of reality and fantasy continue to blurβ¦
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