Upgrade

*Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving exploring the very nature of what it means to be human. ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 *New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens

You don t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin. DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series

Walks the fine line between page-turning thriller and smart sci-fi. Another killer read from Blake. ANDY WEIR, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary

The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and *Recursion

• *You are the next step in human evolution.
• At first, Logan Ramsay isn t sure if anything s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can t deny it: Something s happening to his brain. To his body. He s starting to see the world, and those around him even those he loves most in whole new ways.

The truth is, Logan s genome has been hacked. And there s a reason he s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

Worse still, what s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large at a terrifying cost.

Because of his new abilities, Logan s the one person in the world capable of stopping what s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

And even as he s fighting, he can t help wondering: what if humanity s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity and our boundless potential.

“Amazingly gripping and totally immersive . . . Brilliant (near-future) world-building and impeccable plot. You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.”—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series

“From the first page of Upgrade, it’s clear you’re in the hands of a master storyteller. Blake Crouch leads you on a roller-coaster ride in this highly original science fiction adventure thriller, by turns mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving—exploring the very nature of what it means to be human. . . . Spellbinding.”—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens
 
“Blake Crouch doesn’t pull any punches in this taut and evocative examination of what humanity really is—and how it fails us. Upgrade is a hugely entertaining and emotionally resonant thriller that you’ll be thinking about long after you turn the last page.”—Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones and Divergent

Auteur
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.

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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like *Upgrade.”—The New York Times Book Review

“You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.”—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
 
“Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving—exploring the very nature of what it means to be human.”—ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maiden

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, She Reads

The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion—currently in development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners

*“You are the next step in human evolution.”

• At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.

The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.

Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.

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We found Henrik Soren at a wine bar in the international terminal, thirty minutes from boarding a hyperjet to Tokyo.

Before tonight, I had only seen him in INTERPOL photographs and CCTV footage. In the flesh, he was less impressive—­five and a half feet in his artificially distressed Saint Laurent sneakers with a designer hoodie hiding most of his face. He was sitting at the end of the bar with a book and a bottle of Krug.

I commandeered the stool beside him and set my badge between us. It bore the insignia of a bald eagle whose wings enveloped the double helix of a DNA molecule. For a long moment, nothing happened. I wasn’t even sure he’d seen it gleaming under the hanging globe lights, but then he turned his head and looked at me.

I flashed a smile.

He closed his book. If he was nervous, he didn’t show it. Just stared at me through Scandinavian blue eyes.

“Hi, Henrik,” I said. “I’m Agent Ramsay. I work for the GPA.”

“What am I supposed to have done?”

He was born thirty-­three years ago in Oslo but had been educated in London, where his mother was a diplomat. I could hear that city around the edges of his voice.

“Why don’t we talk about that somewhere else?”

The bartender was watching us now, having clocked my badge. Probably worried about getting the bill paid.

“My flight’s about to board,” Soren said.

“You aren’t going to Tokyo. Not tonight.”

The muscles in his jaw tightened and something flickered in his eyes. He tucked his chin-­length blond hair behind his ears and glanced around the wine bar. And then beyond it, at the travelers moving through the concourse.

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