- Brossura
- Nuovo
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno UnitoCitiRetail
Venditore AbeBooks dal 29 giugno 2022
Condizione: Nuovo
EUR 31,30
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloDescrizione dell’articolo da parte del venditore
Paperback. He knows what you're thinking before you do. He knows what you're afraid of before you feel it. What he doesn't know - what he has never been allowed to know - is himself.Ezra Boone can read minds. Not metaphorically. Not intuitively. Actually. Every room he enters becomes a chorus of exposed wants and buried fears, and he has spent his entire adult life weaponizing that knowledge - as an investigative journalist, as a covert vigilante known only as Eclipse, as a man who manages every human relationship with the precision of a surgeon and the distance of a ghost.He tells himself it makes him better at protecting people.He's lying. And somewhere beneath the noise of six million minds, he knows it.When a dead source leaves behind a single cryptic code word - ORACLE - Ezra begins pulling at a thread that unravels everything. What emerges from the dark is not the intelligence scandal he expected. It's something far more intimate, far more devastating: evidence that his powers were never a mutation. Never an accident. That decades before he was born, the program that would become the most powerful private intelligence organization in Europe had already chosen him. Designed him. Built into his neural architecture the very capacity for empathy he calls his conscience - not because they wanted to create a hero, but because they needed a weapon that wouldn't go feral.The villain waiting at the end of this investigation is silver-haired and genuinely warm, and he makes an argument Ezra cannot dismiss: You already do what I do. You just tell yourself a prettier story about it.He's not entirely wrong.Set across near-future Berlin, Cairo, Tokyo, and Paris, The Weight of Knowing is a psychological thriller that uses the architecture of the superhero genre to ask questions the genre almost never dares: What does it cost to know what other people are thinking - really, actually, constantly? What happens to a person who was built to be a weapon and raised to believe he was a man? And if your capacity for compassion was engineered into you as a safeguard, does that make it less real?This is not a story about saving the world. The world gets saved along the way, but that's almost incidental.This is a story about a man who discovers he cannot trust the source of his own convictions - and what he chooses to do with that knowledge in the dark, when no one is watching, when the armor he has worn his entire life finally comes off.If you've ever asked whether a manufactured conscience is still a conscience, this novel will not give you an easy answer. It will give you the only honest one.For readers of John le Carre's moral complexity, Max Barry's corporate-dystopia dread, and the psychological intimacy of literary superhero fiction at its most unsparing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
Codice articolo 9798231211531
- Titolo
- The Weight of Knowing (Paperback)
- Autore
- S.B. Fates
- Editore
- Sean Benoit
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 13
- 9798231211531
He knows what you're thinking before you do. He knows what you're afraid of before you feel it. What he doesn't know - what he has never been allowed to know - is himself.
Ezra Boone can read minds. Not metaphorically. Not intuitively. Actually. Every room he enters becomes a chorus of exposed wants and buried fears, and he has spent his entire adult life weaponizing that knowledge - as an investigative journalist, as a covert vigilante known only as Eclipse, as a man who manages every human relationship with the precision of a surgeon and the distance of a ghost.
He tells himself it makes him better at protecting people.
He's lying. And somewhere beneath the noise of six million minds, he knows it.
When a dead source leaves behind a single cryptic code word - ORACLE - Ezra begins pulling at a thread that unravels everything. What emerges from the dark is not the intelligence scandal he expected. It's something far more intimate, far more devastating: evidence that his powers were never a mutation. Never an accident. That decades before he was born, the program that would become the most powerful private intelligence organization in Europe had already chosen him. Designed him. Built into his neural architecture the very capacity for empathy he calls his conscience - not because they wanted to create a hero, but because they needed a weapon that wouldn't go feral.
The villain waiting at the end of this investigation is silver-haired and genuinely warm, and he makes an argument Ezra cannot dismiss: You already do what I do. You just tell yourself a prettier story about it.
He's not entirely wrong.
Set across near-future Berlin, Cairo, Tokyo, and Paris, The Weight of Knowing is a psychological thriller that uses the architecture of the superhero genre to ask questions the genre almost never dares: What does it cost to know what other people are thinking - really, actually, constantly? What happens to a person who was built to be a weapon and raised to believe he was a man? And if your capacity for compassion was engineered into you as a safeguard, does that make it less real?
This is not a story about saving the world. The world gets saved along the way, but that's almost incidental.
This is a story about a man who discovers he cannot trust the source of his own convictions - and what he chooses to do with that knowledge in the dark, when no one is watching, when the armor he has worn his entire life finally comes off.
If you've ever asked whether a manufactured conscience is still a conscience, this novel will not give you an easy answer. It will give you the only honest one.
For readers of John le Carré's moral complexity, Max Barry's corporate-dystopia dread, and the psychological intimacy of literary superhero fiction at its most unsparing.
"Riassunto" può appartenere a un’altra edizione di questo titolo.
CitiRetail
Stevenage, Regno Unito
Venditore AbeBooks dal 29 giugno 2022
Tariffe di spedizione da Regno Unito a U.S.A.
| Articolo | Da 7 a 14 giorni lavorativi | Da 7 a 60 giorni lavorativi |
|---|---|---|
| Primo articolo | EUR 43,26 | EUR 43,26 |
Metodi di pagamento
Descrizione dello Store
Online business
Informazioni sull’azienda del venditore
ABC BOOKS LIMITED
10 John Street
London, Regno Unito WC1N 2EB
Condizioni di vendita
Orders can be returned within 30 days of receipt.
Diritto di recesso
Se sei un consumatore puoi recedere dal contratto in conformità con quanto segue. Per Consumatore si intende qualsiasi persona fisica che agisce per scopi estranei alla propria attività commerciale, imprenditoriale, artigianale o professionale.
Informazioni sul diritto di recesso
Diritto legale di recesso
Hai il diritto di recedere dal presente contratto entro 14 giorni senza fornire alcuna motivazione.
Il periodo di recesso scade dopo 14 giorni dal giorno in cui tu o una terza parte, diversa dal vettore e da te indicata, acquisisce il possesso fisico dell'ultimo bene o dell'ultimo lotto o pezzo.
Per esercitare il diritto di recesso, compila e invia elettronicamente una dichiarazione esplicita sul nostro sito Web, alla voce “I miei acquisti” nella sezione “Mio account”. Ti comunicheremo senza indugio una conferma di ricezione di tale recesso su un supporto durevole (ad es. via e-mail).
Per rispettare il termine di recesso, è sufficiente inviare la comunicazione relativa all'esercizio del diritto di recesso prima della scadenza del periodo di recesso stesso.
Effetti del recesso
In caso di recesso dal presente contratto, ti rimborseremo tutti i pagamenti ricevuti, compresi i costi di spedizione (ad eccezione dei costi supplementari derivanti dalla tua eventuale scelta di un tipo di spedizione diverso dal tipo meno costoso di consegna standard da noi offerto).
Potremo effettuare una detrazione dal rimborso per la perdita di valore dei beni forniti, qualora tale perdita sia il risultato di una manipolazione non necessaria da parte tua.
Eseguiremo il rimborso senza indebito ritardo e non oltre 14 giorni dal giorno in cui saremo informati della tua decisione di recedere dal presente contratto.
Il rimborso sarà effettuato utilizzando lo stesso mezzo di pagamento da te usato per la transazione iniziale, salvo che tu non abbia espressamente concordato altrimenti; in ogni caso, non dovrai sostenere alcun costo quale conseguenza di tale rimborso.
Possiamo trattenere il rimborso finché non avremo ricevuto i beni oppure finché non avrai fornito la prova di averli rispediti, a seconda di quale condizione si verifichi per prima.
Dovrai rispedire i beni o consegnarli a CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom, senza indebito ritardo e, in ogni caso, entro 14 giorni dal giorno in cui ci hai comunicato la tua volontà di recedere dal presente contratto. Il termine è rispettato se rispedisci i beni prima della scadenza del periodo di 14 giorni. I costi diretti della restituzione dei beni saranno a tuo carico. Sei responsabile solo della diminuzione del valore dei beni risultante da una manipolazione diversa da quella necessaria per stabilire la natura, le caratteristiche e il funzionamento dei beni stessi.
Eccezioni al diritto di recesso
Il diritto di recesso non si applica a:
- La fornitura di giornali, periodici o riviste ad eccezione dei contratti di abbonamento; e
- La fornitura di contenuto digitale non fornito su un supporto materiale (ad es. su un CD o DVD), se al momento dell'invio dell'ordine hai accettato l'inizio dell'esecuzione e hai riconosciuto che non avresti potuto recedere una volta iniziata l'esecuzione.
Condizioni di spedizione
Please note that titles are dispatched from our US, Canadian or Australian warehouses. Delivery times specified in shipping terms. Orders ship within 2 business days. Delivery to your door then takes 7-14 days.