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By: Blake Crouch
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Upgrade is the mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion.

‘You are the next step in human evolution . . .’

What if you were capable of more?

Your concentration was better, you could multitask quicker, read faster, memorize more, sleep deeper.

For Logan Ramsay, it’s happening. He’s beginning to see the world around him, even those he loves the most, in whole new ways.

He knows that it’s not natural, that his genes have been hacked. He has been targeted for an upgrade.

Logan’s family legacy is one he has been trying to escape for decades and it has left him vulnerable to attack. But with a terrifying plan in place to replicate his upgrade throughout the world’s population, he may be the only person capable of stopping what has already been set in motion.

To win this war against humanity Logan will now have to become something other than himself . . .

Intricately plotted and epic in scope, Upgrade asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity – and our boundless potential. Are you ready for the impossible?

©2022 Blake Crouch (P)2022 Penguin Random House LLC Genre Fiction Medical Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Fiction
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So as not to spoil your reading experience, I will avoid plot and speak about the world Blake Crouch builds in this book. It is a near future Earth where the painful pre-apocalyptic symptoms of environmental neglect are a degree more advanced than in our present. Both the natural world, the built environment, and the social fabric, are frayed. Key illusions, such as the concept of all Americans being important, or that humans have mastery over the world around them, are done with. Enough large scale events, irreversible in nature, such as the abandonment of certain cities, and famines and conflicts, have occurred so that most people no longer have hope or modernist optimism.

Crouch shows us this world as his characters and their stories move through it, with minimal exposition apart from on a few specific historical points. The general state of things is conveyed incidentally, unobtrusively and with skill.
A very satisfying stand alone novel that I recommend to anyone who is susceptible to environmental pessimism. Allow Blake Crouch to somehow make you more hopeful with his imagining of a bleak future thoughtfully considered by his complex characters.

Beautiful, exciting, and quietly terrifying

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