{"product_id":"the-mirror-mind-carl-wang-9798235845640","title":"The Mirror Mind: A Hard SF Thriller About Memory, Murder, and the Drug That Killed the Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if the drug that made you perfect... erased who you were?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Lena Kross takes N-Focus and solves the impossible murder in 72 hours. She also forgets her son's face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen biotech startup Cortiva releases a drug that silences doubt, fear, and the Default Mode Network itself, Lena uses it to hunt a killer. For three days she is flawless. Fearless. Inhuman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she crashes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve victims are hooked to IVs, their brains forced into a distributed supercomputer. The mastermind is dead. But the last dose remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Lena must choose: flush the drug and stay broken, distracted, human... or take it, solve every cold case, and remember how to be a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut N-Focus doesn't give. It takes. And the price is the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love: \u003cbr\u003e- Andy Weir-level hard science with real neuroscience \u003cbr\u003e- Blake Crouch-style memory thrillers like Recursion\u003cbr\u003e- Greg Egan substrate horror and biopunk conspiracies\u003cbr\u003e- Female-led police procedurals with a sci-fi twist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome problems deserve a distracted mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235845640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Carl Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174271295743,"sku":"9798235845640","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mirror-mind-carl-wang-9798235845640","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}