The Rule Of Stephens: A Novel
by Timothy Taylor /
2018 / English / EPUB
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"The significance of being a survivor, in the case of Air France
Flight 801, for a long time lay in the simple fact that there
should have been no survivors."
"The significance of being a survivor, in the case of Air France
Flight 801, for a long time lay in the simple fact that there
should have been no survivors."
Catherine Bach did survive, barely suffering a scratch. She hates
the word "miracle," yet it feels that way at first. She returns to
life as it was before the plane went down. The biotech startup
she'd built from an idea to a multi-million dollar valuation
continues its meteoric rise. But then things begin to go very
wrong. Glitches in tests that are meant to run smoothly, design
delays, security breaches, impatient investors. Catherine has a
growing sense that her good fortune is spent, that the universe
might be betting against her.
Catherine Bach did survive, barely suffering a scratch. She hates
the word "miracle," yet it feels that way at first. She returns to
life as it was before the plane went down. The biotech startup
she'd built from an idea to a multi-million dollar valuation
continues its meteoric rise. But then things begin to go very
wrong. Glitches in tests that are meant to run smoothly, design
delays, security breaches, impatient investors. Catherine has a
growing sense that her good fortune is spent, that the universe
might be betting against her.
And then comes the late-night call, from one of the other
survivors. He has a story to tell, a warning he says, about his own
troubles, a life in ruins, his luck run out. And all at the hands,
he insists, of a mysterious other, resembling him perfectly right
down to the features of his face.
And then comes the late-night call, from one of the other
survivors. He has a story to tell, a warning he says, about his own
troubles, a life in ruins, his luck run out. And all at the hands,
he insists, of a mysterious other, resembling him perfectly right
down to the features of his face.
Madness, Catherine thinks. Or she tries to think as a mystery hedge
fund launches a takeover attempt, run by a woman nobody seems to
know but who is said to bear an uncanny resemblance . . . to
Catherine. Catherine has always believed in an ordered, rational
world--more Stephen Hawking than Stephen King. But with her life at
the brink, she cannot shake the feeling that her "Rule of Stephens"
may no longer hold.
Madness, Catherine thinks. Or she tries to think as a mystery hedge
fund launches a takeover attempt, run by a woman nobody seems to
know but who is said to bear an uncanny resemblance . . . to
Catherine. Catherine has always believed in an ordered, rational
world--more Stephen Hawking than Stephen King. But with her life at
the brink, she cannot shake the feeling that her "Rule of Stephens"
may no longer hold.
Writing with stinging precision about the knife-edge balance
between what is known and what is believed, Timothy Taylor bridges
the divide between literary fiction and page-turning thriller in
this psychological tale of guilt, doubt and doppelgangers.
Writing with stinging precision about the knife-edge balance
between what is known and what is believed, Timothy Taylor bridges
the divide between literary fiction and page-turning thriller in
this psychological tale of guilt, doubt and doppelgangers.