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Ben Winters, whom critics attest "you'll follow...anywhere" (New York Times Book Review) , returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so. What if time could be taken from us - the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure.
About the Author
Ben H. Winters is the author of Golden State (Jan, 2017) , Underground Airlines (July, 2016) and The Last Policeman trilogy -- The Last Policeman (2012) , Countdown City (2013) , and World of Trouble (2014) . Winters has been nominated three times for Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and won once (for The Last Policeman) ; he has also won the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction (for Countdown City) . He has been nominated for the Chautauqua Prize, the Macavity Award, the Anthony Award, and the Bank Street Award for Children's Books. Both Golden State and Underground Airlines were selected by the American Booksellers of America as "Indie Next" picks, and he has earned placement on numerous "Best Of" lists, including on Amazon, Slate, and NPR. Ben's earlier work includes the novels Bedbugs, Android Karenina, the New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and the middle-grade novels The Mystery of the Everything and The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, a Bank Street Best Book of 2011 and an Edgar Award nominee. Ben is also the author of many plays and musicals for children and adults, as well as Literally Disturbed: Tales to Keep You Up at Night, a book of scary poems for kids. He he has written for national and local publications including the Chicago Tribune, Slate, and the Huffington Post. He grew up in Maryland, attended Washington University in St. Louis, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and three children. His website is www.BenHWinters.com
