New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2017 …
The Memory Agent by Matthew B. J. Delaney, A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: 47North
Crime never changes. Punishment does.
In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while blissfully unaware of their crimes.
Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dream worlds and extracting those imprisoned there — for a price. Parker wants out of the game, but a powerful senator, desperate to save his son, convinces Parker to pull one last job. The clincher? An opportunity for Parker to find his wife, herself interned, lost somewhere in a treacherous, time-shifting Manhattan cyberscape.
As Parker and his team make their hallucinatory journey between worlds, memory and motive lose coherence and integrity, and the clock begins to run out: internal security detects the breaker, and sets out to remove him — permanently.
Unable to rely on his perceptions, unsure of the truth or even his very identity, will Parker break out … or be broken?
— The Memory Agent by Matthew B. J. Delaney
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for July 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of July 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
