The Raw Shark Texts

Eric Sanderson wakes in a house with no memory of who he is or how he got there. A note tells him to phone a Dr. Randle. The doctor explains that this is another episode in a long run of them: for two years, since his partner Clio died on a holiday in Greece, Eric has lived with a severe dissociative disorder.

The explanation may be incomplete, or it may be wrong. Letters and papers left behind by the first Eric Sanderson, the man he was before the last memory loss, point toward a stranger account of what has happened to him. As he reads them, he sets out to recover the truth about his past.

Something is also hunting him. Predatory forces threaten to devour him, so the search for answers doubles as an escape, and he cannot afford to stop moving.

The book is a thriller with a fast, driving pace, and it follows Eric closely as he pieces his situation together. Its ideas concern language and information as well as the nature of identity. Underneath the chase sits a love story, and the damage done when that love is lost.