Upgrade
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3.4 • 12 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
''It's clear you're in the hands of a master storyteller' - Alex Michaelides
Upgrade is the mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion.
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‘You are the next step in human evolution . . .’
What if you were capable of more?
Your concentration was better, you could multitask quicker, read faster, memorize more, sleep deeper.
For Logan Ramsay, it’s happening. He’s beginning to see the world around him, even those he loves the most, in whole new ways.
He knows that it’s not natural, that his genes have been hacked. He has been targeted for an upgrade.
Logan’s family legacy is one he has been trying to escape for decades and it has left him vulnerable to attack. But with a terrifying plan in place to replicate his upgrade throughout the world’s population, he may be the only person capable of stopping what has already been set in motion.
To win this war against humanity Logan will now have to become something other than himself . . .
Intricately plotted and epic in scope, Upgrade asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity – and our boundless potential. Are you ready for the impossible?
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'Amazingly gripping and totally immersive' - Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series
'Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner - fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising, and determined to explode the boundaries of what a thriller can be' - Karin Slaughter, author of Pieces of Her
'Blake Crouch doesn't pull any punches in this taut and evocative examination of what humanity really is - and how it fails us' - Veronica Roth, author of Chosen Ones and Divergent
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“The future was here and it was a f***ing mess.” So says Agent Logan Ramsay in this dystopian sci-fi thriller from the creator of the Wayward Pines trilogy. Flawed hero Ramsay works for the federal Gene Protection Agency, pursuing rogue scientists guilty of DNA editing in dark labs. In these underground facilities, terrifying diseases can be engineered, super-drugs can be hacked and synthetic animal species can be illegally bred. Ramsay has a personal stake in this gene war—even more so when he’s caught in a mysterious bomb blast which rewrites his own genome. There are shades of superhero comic books and The Matrix movies as Ramsay begins to develop extraordinary abilities. However, he’s not the only one “upgraded” and soon becomes a fugitive from justice, fighting for the future of humanity. Devotees of William Gibson, David Mitchell and Iain M. Banks will find much to enjoy in this vivid imagining of the near-future, while action fans will relish the hard-boiled fight sequences as the propulsive story goes up through the gears, hurtling towards its high-stakes climax. Unexpectedly moving, impressively researched, chillingly prescient.
Customer Reviews
*Next Level Madness*
This is not usually my kind of genre it is more of a Sci-fi thriller with a lot of technical jargon, that aside I did find it interesting and mind blowing at the lengths some scientists will go to, to stroke their egos and it becomes about something else and sinister when they forget about the possible consequences.
We have Logan Ramsay the son of a mother with a genius scientific mind, when something goes badly wrong he is the left to take the blame while she disappears presumed dead….
Years later he is happy living a life with his wife and daughter when out on a work assignment there is an accident and just like that he notices things with his mind and body are changing, why? Now where he has been hunting strange things going on he becomes the hunted.
The difference with him is he has a conscious and now that he realises his genes have been hacked, it eventually turns him into a superhuman and this attack on him is not random. Someone close to home wants to replicate it and release it into the wider population. Now that does not sit well with Logan and he ends up running a race to stop it while trying to evade capture. He is put to the ultimate test and can never have the life he once had and this version of Logan has to step up way out of his comfort zone, is he enough…..