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‘Old-school creepy… a five-star horror novel’ STEPHEN KING on Ascension

IT’S NOT JUST THE DEAD WE BURY
Private Investigator Arlo Abbas is broke, between cases, and running out of reasons to get off the couch. Then GBP10,000 lands in his bank account from a stranger, with a note: Find Sophie Banik. But Sophie Banik is dead. No suspects, no family, the case forgotten.

His investigation pulls him underground through London’s tunnels and into the orbit of an organization whose strange experiments blur the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness, between life and death. Whoever sent the money didn’t just want Arlo to find Sophie. They wanted him to find what she’d discovered.

Now Arlo must decide how deep he’s willing to dig into the case, the conspiracy, and the parts of his past he’s spent years trying to bury. Because he’s starting to suspect Sophie Banik might not be as dead as everyone thinks.

Publisher Review

PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS BINGE: ‘An accomplished and clever speculative thriller that explores the limits of human knowledge’ THE TIMES ‘Gripping and intriguing.’ DAILY MAIL ‘Jaw-dropping’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘Binge’s eerie speculative thriller looks both outward at the edges of scientific understanding, and inward at the meaning of responsibility, remorse and the human capacity for salvaging mercy from tragedy.’ THE WASHINGTON POST ‘Myth, physics, religion and human nature…it’s all there in this brilliant, brain-twisting, high-concept tour-de-force that keeps you reading just as the scientists in the story are compelled to keep climbing.’ DAILY MAIL ‘Binge is an author to watch and if his subsequent novels are anything close to ASCENSION, I’ll be reading every single one. A fantastic achievement that’ll make me look at my beloved mountains twice.’ TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author ‘Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself… I will be thinking about this one for a long time!’ Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS ‘A rollicking good read. Playful, inventive and vivid, with addictive narrative drive. Astonishingly accomplished.’ Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN ‘Both the science and the suspense are perfection, all held together by a robust emotional core. I enjoyed it immensely’ Tade Thompson, award-winning author of ROSEWATER and FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN ‘A real page turner; Binge is an author to watch.’ Richard Swan, author of THE JUSTICE OF KINGS ‘Ascension is a thrill ride of a novel that kept me reading well past my bedtime’ Michael Mammay, author of the PLANETSIDE SERIES