Big Time, Ben H. Winters
Big Time, Ben H. Winters
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Big Time
A Novel

Author: Ben H. Winters

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2024

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Quiet Boy comes a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken? 

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who’s also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.

About Ben H. Winters

Ben H. Winters is an Edgar Award nominee and a New York Times best-selling author. His most recent novel, Bedbugs, was hailed by Vanity Fair as a “diabolical tale of paranoia.” He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

Winters' last novel, The Quiet Boy, was truly fantastic, but it was also a very long and often slow burn and I think I may have been the only person who really loved it (or read it). This time around Winters is running at full speed, almost always sprinting, with a book you can tear through and be s......more

Goodreads review by Robert

It opens brilliantly with a kidnapping of a schoolteacher by a curiously photogenic, green-eyed assassin. Fast-paced and thoroughly captivating, I was buckled up for a real barn burner. Then, the book smashes into a bottleneck of confusing motives, narrative incoherence, and an influx of extraneous......more

Quotes

“Big Time is a wild and wonderful trip, a kaleidoscope of mind-bending science, metaphysics, and good old-fashioned thrills. And most engaging of all are the characters Ben Winters creates: a hugely appealing Everywoman sleuth, a young woman struggling with a harrowing dilemma, and one of the scariest antagonists in recent memory.” —Lou Berney, author of the New York Times-bestselling NOVEMBER ROAD

“Ben Winters is a genre alchemist - the kind of writer who blends and weaves the preconceived ideas of story to create something wholly new and riveting, and Big Time is no exception. A brilliant thriller that also dances between the raindrops of reality and time itself, Winters continues to keep readers on their toes, in the best way possible. I’m so glad this book exists.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of SECRET IDENTITY

"An exciting, thought-provoking, time-bending, and ultimately mind-blowing tale filled with the wonder, whimsy, and weirdness that make Ben H. Winters one of our most imaginative voices."—Thomas Mullen, author of BLIND SPOTS

“Big Time is a propulsive mix of big ideas, expert plotting, and deep character work—intertwined in the kind of way that only Ben Winters can do. This is a ‘clear your calendar first’ kind of book.”—Rob Hart, author of THE PARADOX HOTEL and THE WAREHOUSE

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