Description: "Edgar finalist Sakey follows his Brilliance Trilogy with a remarkably conceived and passionately realized supernatural thriller....Balancing lyric romance and altruistic self-sacrifice with horrifying scenes and wrenching violence, Sakey comes up with a fascinating answer to the eternal question of why humans exist." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Sakey follows up his incredible Brilliance Trilogy with an otherworldly stand-alone thriller about a subterranean war between gods and monsters...employ[ing] all his storytelling gifts to craft a noodle-bender of the first order. A love story enmeshed in a twisty thriller that peels back the universe to see what lies beneath." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) " AFTERLIFE is simultaneously a beautiful love story, a grim tale of apocalyptic conflict, and an opportunity for an insightful writer to ruminate on the eternal verities. Great appeal across genres." -- Booklist (starred review) "Sakey has crafted an original and unpredictable tale that puts a different spin on the battle between good and evil." --Associated Press "Sakey has crafted a compulsive thriller....His world-building is pretty epic, and the community of characters...reminded me of Stephen King's The Stand . It's amazing what a skillful writer with 'a sense of theater' and a brilliant imagination can do." -- The Minneapolis Star Tribune " AFTERLIFE drags the reader along at a breathless pace....Excellent, addictive, and eminently re-readable fiction." --RT Book Reviews (Five Star Gold review) "Imagine the love story in the film Ghost dropped into The Matrix . Astonishing." --Don Winslow "Truly incredible. An epic, original vision. My brain is still bent." --Blake Crouch PRAISE FOR MARCUS SAKEY "Ridiculously good...Sakey is the master of the mindful page turner." --Gillian Flynn "One of our best storytellers." --Michael Connelly "It's depth and intelligence and passion and emotion that set Sakey apart." --Lee Child

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