Upgrade: A Novel by Crouch, Blake

ISBN: 0593157532

Author: Crouch, Blake

Condition: new

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade.-The New York Times Book ReviewYou dont so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.-DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander seriesMysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving-exploring the very nature of what it means to be human.-ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The MaidenONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, She ReadsThe mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion-currently in development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin PartnersYou are the next step in human evolution.At first, Logan Ramsay isnt sure if anythings different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.But before long, he cant deny it: Somethings happening to his brain. To his body. Hes starting to see the world, and those around him-even those he loves most-in whole new ways.The truth is, Logans genome has been hacked. And theres a reason hes been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.Worse still, whats happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large-at a terrifying cost.Because of his new abilities, Logans the one person in the world capable of stopping whats been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, hell have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.And even as hes fighting, he cant help wondering: what if humanitys only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one mans thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity-and our boundless potential.