Three Days in April, Edward Ashton
Three Days in April, Edward Ashton
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Three Days in April

Author: Edward Ashton

Narrator: John Pirhalla, Barrie Kreinik, Katharine Chin, Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Voyager

Published: 02/17/2026

Synopsis

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, THREE DAYS IN APRIL is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre.Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg…and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need.In a world divided between the genetically engineered elite and the unmodified masses, Anders is an anomaly: engineered, but still broke and living next to a crack house. All he wants is to land a tenure-track faculty position, and maybe meet someone who’s not technically a criminal-but when a nightmare plague rips through Hagerstown, Anders finds himself dodging kinetic energy weapons and government assassins as Baltimore slips into chaos. His friends aren’t as helpless as they seem, though, and his girlfriend’s street-magician brother-in-law might be a pretentious hipster - or might hold the secret to saving them all.Frenetic and audacious, Three Days in April is a a blend of science fiction and psychological thriller that raises an important question: once humanity goes down the rabbit hole, can we ever find our way back?

About Edward Ashton

Edward Ashton lives with his adorably mopey dog, his inordinately patient wife, and three beautiful but terrifying daughters in Rochester, New York, where he studies new cancer therapies by day, and writes about the awful things his research may lead to by night. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of venues, ranging from Louisiana Literature to Daily Science Fiction. Three Days in April is his first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Timothy on September 16, 2015

Three Days in April by Edward Ashton could be described as the book that brought its futuristic-drug giggles to the award ceremony. Meanwhile, chemicals in the air are planting tiny bombs inside everyone around them. Bombs that are likely to go off before anyone knows they're infected. Three Days in......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 22, 2017

'Hagerstown' spielt in einem kleinen Städtchen im Osten der USA. Es wird zwar keine Jahreszahl genannt, aber dem technischen und wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt kann man entnehmen, dass wir uns in der Zukunft befinden. Diese Fortschrittlichkeit zieht sich durch den gesamten Alltag der Figuren, am mei......more

Goodreads review by Keith on December 10, 2018

Three Days in April is the kind of science fiction book that jumps into a situation and challenges the reader to figure out what the heck is going on. That makes almost any information in a review at least spoiler-adjacent. So here's a minimum. It's set in Baltimore in the not-too-distant future. It......more

Goodreads review by Robyn on August 24, 2017

This book reminded me of Matt Ruff's writing, in both style and quality. Except I don't think even Ruff could pull off a multi-pov first person present perspective as good as Three Days in April. That's like the Iron Man triathlon of novels, yet this book is executes it so well that it reads as smoo......more

Goodreads review by Krista on September 30, 2015

This story was amazing! I was highly entertained the whole time and loved the constant movement of both the characters and the storyline. A techno-thriller set in the near future with a focus on mixing of cyborgs, natural humans and those that had alterations done. A corporation is trying to hide th......more

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