{"product_id":"dare-to-know-isbn-9781683693161","title":"Dare to Know","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eA voraciously readable page-turner of a novel.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e—Cory Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. \u003ci\u003eDare to Know\u003c\/i\u003e is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix.”—Daniel Kraus, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller is set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOur narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three  minutes ago. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he’s forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWildly ambitious and highly immersive, this thought-provoking thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its shocking conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment.”—Cory Doctorow, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRadicalized\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e' Best Books of 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeptember 2021 Indie Next Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment.”—Cory Doctorow, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRadicalized\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A surreal premise and an unconventional revelation fuel a cosmic journey....a wholly original novel that’s bound to frustrate just as many as it entrances.”\u003ci\u003e—Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating, compulsively readable thriller.”\u003ci\u003e—The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine Donna Tartt’s \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e getting a good edit at last, and you glimpse something of this book’s occult power. Essential reading for the gathering dark.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Saturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An entertainingly mind-bending read.”—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Audaciously clever and well-written...a quite superb piece of storytelling: vivid, thought-provoking and unsettling.”\u003ci\u003e—SFX Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (5 stars)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A creepy thriller that reads a little like Stephen King writing \u003ci\u003eGlengarry Glen Ross.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003ci\u003e—GeekDad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine what would happen if Chuck Palahniuk, Enrico Fermi, and the Brothers Grimm got together to raise a child...Sci-fi, snark-horror and futuristic thriller fans will love it.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eTerri Schlichenmeyer for \u003ci\u003eThe Guam Daily Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller....Readers with a taste for the synchronicity of the cosmic with the commonplace are sure to be entertained.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Dare To Know\u003c\/i\u003e will prompt the reader to consider the philosophical implications of life and death itself.”\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] genre-bending thriller...good pacing and clever plotting keep the pages turning.”\u003ci\u003e—New York Journal of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Kennedy \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the horror thriller \u003ci\u003eBride of the Tornado\u003c\/i\u003e, which the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e named one of the “Best Recent Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Novels” in September 2023. James‘s previous books include the sci-fi novel \u003ci\u003eDare to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named by the \u003ci\u003eTimes Saturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e as a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2021, and the young adult fantasy \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Odd-Fish\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, James is the founder of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds. He also hosts the \u003ci\u003eSecrets of Story\u003c\/i\u003e podcast with Matt Bird. James lives in Chicago.","brand":"Quirk Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302263378149,"sku":"NP9781683693161","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781683693161.jpg?v=1767724479","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dare-to-know-isbn-9781683693161","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}