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Dare to Know

A Novel

by James Kennedy
Bradford Hastings
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Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price.

Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone's death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago.

The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he is forced to confront his past, the choices he has made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for.

Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion.

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  • Release date

    September 14, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781665087070
      • File size: 247098 KB
      • Duration: 08:34:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 3, 2021
      The weight of knowing when death will arrive presses heavily on the characters of this enjoyable slipstream thriller from YA author Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish). The burned-out, unnamed narrator works for a company that delivers perfect predictions of when its clients will die, using an algorithm that measures “thanatons.” He violates the company’s cardinal rule when he uses the algorithm on himself—and discovers that, according to the calculations, he’s already dead. The revelation thrusts him into a surreal quest to reconnect with the important people in his life, taking him through memories of his early days at physics camp, his university years and first love, and the subsequent, failed marriage he used to try to forget her. Kennedy ties the very personal quirks of his main character to the eccentricities of the universe, incorporating the lost city of Cahokia and the Crab Nebula supernova of 1054 into the mystery of the algorithm’s error. Readers with a taste for the synchronicity of the cosmic with the commonplace are sure to be entertained. Agent: John Cusick, Folio Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Bradford Hastings tackles an unusual thriller in which a company develops the technology to predict a person's exact moment of death, and the nameless narrator discovers that, according to the technology, he's already dead. The prediction--absolute and accurate--thrusts the narrator on an introspective quest. Hastings's sarcastic narration is a fantastic complement to the nameless narrator's tone as he's prone to snark. The story is surreal and kaleidoscopic as the narrator attempts to find meaning in his life, a life brimming with heartbreak, loss, and disappointment. The troublesome ending aside, Hastings's narration and the weird story itself combine for an engaging performance that is sure to stick with listeners. J.M.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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