Has one of his clones? With no memory of his previous selves, and working fast before he's arrested, Chance digs into Conway's background, the mysteries of his own life-and death-and the tragic abduction that tore his family apart.Īll Chance has to do is stay ahead of the LAPD his kidnappers, who are back on the hunt and a growing mob of incensed protesters outraged that a rich clone appears to be getting away with murder. Matthew FitzSimmons Chance (Constance) Hardcover Februby Matthew FitzSimmons (Author) 790 ratings Book 2 of 2: Constance See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 4.99 to buy Audiobook 0. The public, though? They can't get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle.īut after Chance's latest 'refresh,' he awakens to accusations that he's killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met. Chance was revived-and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion.

Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Because only one thing has become clear: Con is being marked for murder-all over again. On the run, she needs someone she can trust. For Chance Harker, it's a way of getting on with his lives. To uncover the truth, Con is retracing the last days she can recall, crossing paths with a detective whos just as curious. (Sept.A clone plays a dangerous game of life, death, memory, and murder in a twisting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Matthew FitzSimmons.Ĭloning is a luxury for the wealthy. Agent: David Hale Smith, InkWell Management. FitzSimmons has upped his game with this one.

Late one night two years earlier, while the band leader was tired and very sleepy, he crashed the van. She joined a band and became close to the band leader. She had a tumultuous youth and rebelled against her very religious mother. In this timely thriller, tantalizing clues, complex motives, and shifting views of the truth flow around such issues as the relationship between money and power, the right to life, and the definition of self. Constance Con D’Arcy works from her apartment and avoids human contact if she can. Suddenly aware that her existence is considered a mistake and she’s in danger of being “deleted,” she escapes from the clinic, intent on finding out what happened to her original self.

Constance awakes from the procedure with no memory of the preceding 18 months and the disturbing realization she’s a clone, which means the original Constance must be dead. The process has become as easy as a visit to the spa-until now. Constance enters the facility ready for her regular consciousness download, information that will be used to update her clone in the event of her death. At the start of this exceptional near-future SF thriller from FitzSimmons (the Gibson Vaughn series), Constance D’Arcy, a Washington, D.C., musician/songwriter who never quite made the big time, keeps her appointment at Palingenesis, the revolutionary research facility cofounded by her scientist aunt, the mother of human cloning.

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