The Gone World

In 1997, Shannon Moss is a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service — but she is also something far stranger. She works for a secret branch of the Naval Space Command that sends agents forward through time and out into deep space, and she has already seen the far future with her own eyes, losing part of her leg on one such voyage. Every journey forward reveals the same looming horror: the Terminus, the point at which humanity simply ceases to be.

Moss is pulled onto the brutal murder of a Navy SEAL's family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter in rural Pennsylvania. As she investigates across multiple possible futures, she realises the case is bound up with a lost black-ops spacecraft, its vanished crew, and the accelerating approach of the Terminus itself — and that her own choices are bending the timeline she is trying to save.

Blending hard science fiction, crime thriller, and existential horror, Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World is a dense, ambitious novel of time travel, murder, and the end of everything — often described as "Inception meets True Detective."