{"product_id":"blind-spots-9781250842763","title":"Blind Spots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The pace is fast, the body count significant, the loopholes minor. All this tech-enabled police procedural lacks is a Lennie Briscoe zinger at the beginning. Two guns--I mean thumbs--up.\" \u003ci\u003e-Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn't believe her--until a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists--and with the bodies piling up--Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can't even trust his own eyes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDarktown \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Last Town on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, delivers an unputdownable crime novel about one man's search for truth in a world of surveillance and disinformation that's all too recognizable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Mullen\u003c\/b\u003e is the internationally bestselling author of six acclaimed novels, including \u003ci\u003eDarktown\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an NPR Best Book, was shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, an Audie Award, and was nominated for or won prizes in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The follow-up, \u003ci\u003eLightning Men, \u003c\/i\u003ewas named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eand was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Town on Earth, \u003c\/i\u003ewas named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003eand was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction. He lives in Atlanta with his family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Minotaur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725791367442,"sku":"9781250842763","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12508546-b575-4d29-8b3e-4729b8ee5248.jpg?v=1744217510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blind-spots-9781250842763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}