With new information surfacing that could threaten Lombard’s bid for the presidency, Gibson must stay one step ahead as he navigates a dangerous web to get to the truth. Using his military and technical prowess, he soon discovers multiple conspiracies surrounding the Lombard family―and he encounters powerful, ruthless political players who will do anything to silence him and his team. Haunted by tragic memories, he jumps at the chance to uncover what happened all those years ago. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance, the former head of Benjamin Lombard’s security asks for Gibson’s help in a covert investigation of the case, with new evidence in hand. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.įor legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal―Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him.

New things being thrown at readers.A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard―then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency―disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Twists and turns taken, and a general lack of time to digest any of the many Matthew Fitzsimmons No preview available - 2023 About the author (2023) Matthew FitzSimmons is the author of the Constance series and the Wall Street Journal bestselling Gibson Vaughn series, which includes Origami Man, Debris Line, Cold Harbor, Poisonfeather, and The Short Drop. Leads to a crash course of an ending, with many plot threads being wrapped up, unforeseen While the discussions on these are nuanced ones, Sense of self, right to life, and what it means to be human in a world where The more is unveiledĪbout Constance’s world, the more it becomes evident that this near future withĮerie overlaps to our own world is truly dystopian in nature.Īnd the novel tackles a broad spectrum of very timely subjects, such as autonomy, Motives and tantalizing clues built both mystery and tension. The intersection of many genres and examines a plethora of issues. Her very existence is considered a lapse in morality by many, and the company her scientist aunt founded wants her “deleted.” All Constance has are unanswerable questions, and it’s up to her to find out what happened to the original Constance D’Arcy. However, something had obviously gone wrong. There was a strict schedule for uploading memories at Palingenisis just in case the unforeseen happened, which it clearly had. Now, Constance is missing eighteen long months of her original’s memories, something that never should have happened.

The singer/songwriter had been drifting gig to gig after a tragic accident killed several of her almost-famous band members and left her lover comatose just before the launch of the band’s debut album. When Constance D’Arcy awakens at Palingenisis after a routine memory upload, she realizes two things: she’s a clone, and the original Constance is dead. Constance is a foray into the near future, the science fiction tale veering into the territory of a thriller with its consistently fast pacing and high tension. Matthew FitzSimmons, author of the Gibson Vaughn series, brings us a new novel.

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