The Next Time I Die
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A paranoid thriller in the mind-bending tradition of Philip K. Dick and The Twilight Zone, THE NEXT TIME I DIE will draw you into its claustrophobic web of suspense and leave you questioning everything you think you know.
DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
Steven Blitz didn’t think about his own safety when he saw the man trying to force a woman into his car. He stepped in to defend her, and got a knife to the gut for his troubles.
But when he wakes up in the hospital from what should have been a fatal wound, he finds the whole world changed – a different president in the White House, a loving family when he’d been on the verge of divorce, more money in the bank than he’s ever seen. There’s a dark side, though: in this world, Steven Blitz is not a good man. And now he’s got to get himself out of serious trouble without even knowing what it is he’s done wrong.
“Jason Starr is the first writer of his generation to convincingly update the modern crime novel by giving it provocative new spins.”
—Bret Easton Ellis
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
New York attorney Steven Blitz, the narrator of this intriguing SF thriller from Starr (Fugitive Red), is preparing to defend a celebrity artist accused of murdering three men when his manic-depressive wife, Laura, kicks him out, demands a divorce, and reveals she's having an affair with a woman. En route to stay with his brother, Blitz stops at a gas station, where he sees a brute manhandling a young woman who could be a college student. He's stabbed when he attempts to intervene. When Blitz awakens after the assault, he's in a world where he's recovering from a car crash, not a stabbing, and he and Laura are not only on great terms but have a six-year-old daughter. He learns from the news that though it's still 2020, Al Gore is president and is trying to avert a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. With his sanity questioned by doctors, friends, and colleagues, Blitz struggles to find out what's happened to him. As in the best nightmarish noir, Starr ups the ante incrementally, trapping his lead in increasingly worse situations. Fans of TV's Life on Mars will be intrigued.
