AFTERLIFE

by Marcus Sakey

An instant Wall Street Journal bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

Between life and death lies an epic war, a relentless manhunt through two worlds…and an unforgettable love story.

The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion—a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave.

He wakes without a scratch.

The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He’s relieved to spot other people—until he sees they’re carrying machetes.

Welcome to the afterlife.

Claire McCoy stands over the body of Will Brody. As head of an FBI task force, she hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in weeks. A terrorist has claimed eighteen lives and thrown the nation into panic.

Against this horror, something reckless and beautiful happened. She fell in love…with Will Brody.

But the line between life and death is narrower than any of us suspect—and all that matters to Will and Claire is getting back to each other.

From the author of the million-copy bestselling Brilliance Trilogy comes a mind-bending thriller that explores our most haunting and fundamental question: What if death is just the beginning?

• ISBN10: 1477848401
• ISBN13: 9781477848401
• Publish Date: 18 July 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thomas & Mercer
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 318
• Language: English

Reviews

[Jeff Sexton]

Great story, but Sakey shows his liberal mindset in a couple of points.

1) He has a character go across State lines to a gun show to buy a gun *and come home with it*. That *DOES NOT* happen in the real world. I know, since I have actually purchased a gun at a gun show in another State.

2) He says there is no debate about the stopping power of a .45 round. A quick Google will show just how wrong that is, and there is no true definitive answer re: "stopping power".

3) When mentioning bad rich people, he mentions Donald Trump and the liberals' favorite target the Koch Brothers, but fails to mention George Soros or similar bad rich people on the left.

He also squanders a great opportunity to do something truly transcendental and instead leaves us with a solid story that could have been so much more.