Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. Hoare takes him to visit a man named Pont to engage in a bit of 'Socratic sort of dialogue, culminating perhaps in a brief excursus.' What follows is a couple pages of philosophical back-and-forth about the nature of government and war (which is actually fairly interesting and may be an accurate assessment of our own government's approach to war) – at which point it emerges that Hoare was just using Pont to elicit a definition of a term for our hapless hero.“I promise you have never read a story like this.”-Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Crispin Hoare in the Office of Procurement. There is a scene in which our protagonist, after a string of run-arounds from various potential employers, finally arrives at his last chance for gainful employment, one Mr. But pay attention – he'll eventually make his way back around to the subject at hand and if you've been so immersed in the digression that you think it has replaced the topic of conversation, you'll find yourself sorely mistaken. His parenthetical clauses have asides, which then have tangents. I have not had the occasion to hear Harkaway speak, but if he talks the way he writes then I imagine conversation with him must be exhausting. And then, just when you think the action is about to start, the book cuts away to a flashback. In short, they're being asked to save the world.

It is a rambunctious novel that begins with some not-fully-explained disaster which our narrator/protagonist (along with his ragtag band of unruly-but-skilled compatriots) has been recruited to fix. I read Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I was eager to read his previous novel, The Gone-Away World.

The gone world novel