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By: Peter James
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How far would you go to live forever?

Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live forever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ARCHIVE.

But Joe's wife, Karen, is worried by his preoccupation with ARCHIVE, which seems to be developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality of its own.

Then, just as Joe is on the brink of a scientific breakthrough, a series of macabre accidents befall him and his family - and Joe finds himself facing the terrifying consequences of his own obsessions.

Also from multimillion-copy best-selling author of the Roy Grace novels:

  • Possession
  • Dreamer
  • Sweet Heart
  • Twilight
  • Prophecy
  • Host
  • Alchemist
  • Denial
  • The Truth
  • Faith
©2018 Peter James (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Psychological Supernatural Suspense Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Paranormal Exciting Heartfelt Scary

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Critic reviews

"Easily James's best book to date; a thought-provoking menacer that's completely technological and genuinely frightening about the power of future communications." (Time Out)
"Compulsive...I cannot remember when I last read a novel I enjoyed so much." (Sunday Telegraph)
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Clever plot but I expected a slightly tidier ending. Eg I thought an eternity stuck in a virtual world with JS.

Clever plot

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The idea behind the book is basically a hot item, the threat of AI, but there are so many other threads overlapping.
Within the first 2 chapters it was pretty clear which way the story was going to go and it was unbearable how stupid and naive the main character was. And him a super scientist.
The language was another sore spot. It reminded me of the passages we used in English learning text books in the 60’s. simplified, graphic and irrelevant. ‘ John sees a tall man. He is wearing a funny hat’ kind of thing.
The bad guys are really bad and the good guys are really dumb....

The stupidest scientist in literature?

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detailed thriller,but not up to James's normal standard. this is not a Roy grace. hard work

detailed thriller,but not up to James's standard

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A little slow and with jargon overload to start with but worth sticking with it to the end

Stick with it

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Brilliant book,great story. Peter James has excelled with this book. Can’t wait for next one

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Although a little slow at the start, it was thrilling and gripped me throughout. so many emotions played with... superbly crafted.

gripping throughout

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A lot of time spent laying out signposts to obvious conclusions. Story survived 26 years well. Maybe it has been in cryostasis?

A bit slow getting to the obvious in places

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Ok a bit dated now ( we’ll 1993 seems a while ago now ) but still enthralling and good narration

Great storytelling

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I enjoyed the book and if you gloss over some of the cracks in the storyline this made for a very chilling perspective on this technology. Perhaps AI won’t manifest in quite this way but the story infers the gravity of what could be if this weren’t managed very carefully… (are we really capable of doing so? I doubt it). It seems these days despite the ‘high tech’ world we live in there are and will always be blunders and misuse

Be careful with AI

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another addictive book by Peter James, loved every second of it, wanted it to last forever! Thank you

fabulous

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