Big Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316305778)

In this "virtuoso," "jaw-dropping" and "stellar technological thriller" (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review), a mother engulfed by her own mid-life crisis stumbles upon a dark conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time.

What if time could be taken from us--the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken?

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who's also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.

Author: Ben H. Winters
ISBN-10: 0316305774
ISBN-13: 9780316305778
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.06w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2023 pg. 12
Library Journal 01/01/2024 pg. 56
Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2024
Shelf Awareness 03/15/2024