Pursuit

Wilbur Hawkes wakes in a world that has moved on without him. Seven months have vanished from his memory, and in their place: terror. His apartment explodes the moment he leaves it. Strangers with impossible weapons hunt him through the neon-dark streets of a future New York. Heat rays reduce men to ash. Disintegrators unmake everything they touch. Cats explode. And no one will tell him why. What follows is a desperate, fractured race against time and something vast and alien that may or may not be of this earth. Hawkes must piece together who he was, why he matters, and what he did to make himself a target before the world finishes erasing him entirely. Pursuit is cold-war paranoia dressed in atomic-age chrome: a propulsive, paranoid thriller about a man who cannot trust his own mind and cannot outrun an enemy he cannot understand. For readers who want their science fiction visceral, fast, and utterly unforgiving.