Flashback

16 hrs. 51 min.

Language Russian

Author Dan Simmons

Narrator Evgeny Perepelitsa

Description

Near future. The USA has lost its status as a world power, crushed by an unbearable national debt. Moreover, several states after a successful “reconquista” have gone over to Mexico. Russia, where an unchanging “Tsar Vladimir” rules, continues to hold its neighbors hostage with resource blackmail. Japan is competing for world domination with a new World Caliphate that has swallowed up Europe and even Canada. And most Americans live under the power of a drug called flashback, which lets people vividly—like in reality—relive any events from their own past.

And now Denver detective Nick Bottom—an experienced flashbaker—receives a request from Hiroshi Nakamura, one of nine Japanese federal advisers, the most powerful people in the US. Six years ago, Keigo Nakamura, the adviser’s son, who filmed a documentary about the American flashback epidemic, was murdered, and the crime was never solved. Nick Bottom led the investigation—but it cost him his career, not that failure, but the flashback he started abusing after his wife’s death. Now he is the only one who can use flashback to restore all the case materials and finally dig out the truth. The truth—which, unless a miracle happens, will cost him his life.