But her research is co-opted by a mysterious billionaire named Marcus Slade - think Elon Musk crossed with Dr. Her goal is to help people with Alzheimer's like her mother retain their precious memories. Meanwhile, 10 years prior, a researcher named Helena is working on a project to digitally map memories. This leads him to begin investigating what FMS really is. The story starts with an NYPD detective named Barry, who tries to stop a woman with "False Memory Syndrome" from jumping off a Manhattan skyscraper. Yes, much like his last novel Dark Matter, which explored the notion of multiple universes, his newest thriller provides a different but similarly cerebral thought experiment: What if we can "live" in several timelines - or versions of our lives - simultaneously? I know it sounds confusing, but in the hands of a writer as talented and smart as Crouch, and within the framework of his ingenuous, turbo-speed plot, it really does all make sense. Wait, what? If your head is spinning, you're in the perfect spot to tackle Black Crouch's mind-blowing new thriller, Recursion. That's because consciousness is actually memory. With apologies to Matthew McConaughey, time may not be a flat circle after all.
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