AFTERLIFE

Name: AFTERLIFE
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Marcus Sakey
ISBN: 9781536682748

Author: Marcus Sakey

Narrator: Finty Williams

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/18/2017

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Supernatural, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

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?

About Marcus Sakey

Marcus Sakey’s books have sold more than a million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. For more information, visit www.MarcusSakey.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne on August 30, 2017

FBI agent Will Brody is hunting down a sniper who is terrorizing the city of Chicago. Eighteen lives have been lost and there is widespread panic in the city. Claire McCoy is leading the task force and is romantically involved with Will. After this assignment they look forward to formalizing their l......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on July 18, 2017

In hindsight should I probably quite early on, just stopped reading this book when I realized that it was not working. Except, my middle name is apparently stubborn and I thought the idea of the book was so fantastic that I couldn't understand why I just couldn't get into the book. I mean it's nothi......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 26, 2017

Without realising it, I have been waiting for a book to come into my life and completely blow me away. Afterlife was this book for me. I had no preconceptions going into it, didn’t re-read the blurb, didn’t Google it, I just dove right in. And I was greatly rewarded once I started. Afterlife is a stu......more

Goodreads review by Malina Skrobosinski on August 08, 2017

Not a home run for me, but I still enjoyed the game. When I first started this novel I was worried. The first Chapter almost lost me. Periodically through the book Edmund's character will make a random appearance and each time I was completely lost. I could say that maybe it's the fact that I read t......more

Goodreads review by Skip on August 08, 2017

Like many others, I loved Sakey's Brilliance trilogy, and looked forward to this. I was quite disappointed. A crazed elusive sniper is terrorizing the city when two FBI agents: Assistant Director Claire McCoy and Special Agent Will Brody collaborate in an unconventional way to stop him. Meanwhile, t......more

Quotes

“Edgar finalist Sakey follows his Brilliance Trilogy with a remarkably conceived and passionately realized supernatural thriller.…Balancing lyric romance and altruistic self-sacrifice with horrifying scenes and wrenching violence, Sakey comes up with a fascinating answer to the eternal question of why humans exist.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Sakey follows up his incredible Brilliance Trilogy with an otherworldly stand-alone thriller about a subterranean war between gods and monsters...employ[ing] all his storytelling gifts to craft a noodle-bender of the first order. A love story enmeshed in a twisty thriller that peels back the universe to see what lies beneath.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“AFTERLIFE is simultaneously a beautiful love story, a grim tale of apocalyptic conflict, and an opportunity for an insightful writer to ruminate on the eternal verities. Great appeal across genres.” —Booklist (starred review)