For your crime fiction shelves, the latest from Kate Atkinson, a sci-fi/crime tale from Alexander Boldizar, and a fresh take on who’s doing the detecting from Marie Tierney. For your crime fiction shelves, the latest from Kate Atkinson, a sci-fi/crime tale from Alexander Boldizar, and a fresh take on who’s doing the detecting from Marie Tierney. The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar When Preble Jefferson has an unfortunate encounter with two New York cops in a subway station, it swiftly escalates to an all-out, all-guns-firing episode.
What is amazing is that even with reinforcements, Preble exits unscathed, while several of New York’s finest lie shot and wounded, having dispensed more than seven hundred rounds aimed at their target, Preble. It would seem that Preble has the ability to ‘see’ five seconds into the future, and has trained himself to be capable of altering multiple outcomes. Naturally, he becomes a person of special interest to the security forces of the US Government, and for one particular NSA Head, he’s adamant that a dead Preble is better than one that isn’t in their control.
So adamant that they bypass the President and imagine scenarios where the President is compromised under Preble’s "power." Preble has a wife and three-year-old son; and in a daring outlandish escape, they just manage to elude their would-be captors, and flee to Manitoba, Canada. There, Preble hopes to spend the rest of their days avoiding being made some Governme.