Blind Spots: A Novel [Paperback]

The pace is fast, the body count significant, the loopholes minor. All this tech-enabled police procedural lacks is a Lennie Briscoe zinger at the beginning. Two gunsI mean thumbsup. Wall Street Journal

A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated.

Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to peoples brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see?

Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesnt believe heruntil a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultistsand with the bodies piling upOwens must conduct an investigation in which he cant even trust his own eyes.

Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author ofDarktownandThe Last Town on Earth, delivers an unputdownable crime novel about one man's search for truth in a world of surveillance and disinformation thats all too recognizable.

A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated.Thomas Mullenis the internationally bestselling author of six acclaimed novels, includingDarktown, which was an NPR Best Book, was shortlisted for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, an Audie Award, and was nominated for or won prizes in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The follow-up,Lightning Men,was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of the year byThe New York Times Book Reviewand was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award.His debut,The Last TlÃ0