The Gone World

In a narrative that blends the mind-bending complexity of Inception with the gritty intensity of True Detective, Tom Sweterlitsch's 'The Gone World' plunges readers into a high-stakes science fiction thriller. Special agent Shannon Moss, a member of a clandestine Naval Criminal Investigative Service division, is dispatched to western Pennsylvania in 1997 to unravel the brutal murder of a Navy SEAL's family and locate his vanished teenage daughter. Moss soon discovers the SEAL was an astronaut from the U.S.S. Libra, a ship lost to the unfathomable currents of Deep Time. Haunted by her own experiences with time-travel trauma, Moss suspects the SEAL's exposure to future timelines triggered the violence. Driven by a desperate need to find the girl and a troubling connection to her own past, Moss embarks on perilous jumps into potential futures, seeking crucial evidence to crack the present-day case. What she uncovers is far more terrifying than a single family's tragedy: a cataclysmic event known as the Terminus, hurtling toward humanity's end, with her actions holding the key to potentially altering the fate of all existence.