Drafter

Pages: 432
Published: 2015
Language: English

Detroit, 2030. Peri Reed is one of the most talented drafters alive: she can rewind roughly forty seconds of time to undo a mission gone wrong. The price is her memory of what happened, which has to be rebuilt for her afterwards by a trained anchor — and her anchor is Jack, her partner and lover.

When Peri discovers that Jack has been deliberately falsifying the memories he gives back to her, she becomes a corruption liability to Opti, the government agency she works for, and has to run. She falls in with Silas, a psychologist working for the opposing faction, and together they try to reconstruct the night she killed her former partner — knowing the reconstruction may destroy her.

The Drafter is the first book in Kim Harrison's Peri Reed Chronicles, a science-fiction thriller in which the reader, like Peri, is never quite sure which memories can be trusted.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison is the pen name of American author Dawn Cook, born in 1966 in the Midwestern United States. She grew up as the only girl in a family of boys and describes herself as a former tomboy who grew up reading science fiction and fairy tales. She discovered a talent for writing at age fifteen, and later earned a science degree, having avoided English courses beyond what was required in high school and college. After marrying and having two children, she resigned from her day job to write fu...