Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Pg. 69: Nick Mamatas's "The Second Shooter"

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas.

About the book, from the publisher:
A perception-twisting scifi thriller by a critically acclaimed author.

Sometimes, the truth is weirder than the conspiracy theories.

“There was video of the second shooter. There
was video.”

In the first reports of every mass shooting, there’s always mention of a second shooter—two sets of gunshots, a figure seen fleeing the scene—and they always seem to evaporate as events are pieced together.

Commissioned by a fringe publisher to investigate the phenomenon, journalist Mike Karras finds himself tailed by drones, attacked by a talk radio host, badgered by his all-knowing (and maybe all-powerful) editor, and teaming up with an immigrant family of conspiracy buffs.

Together, they uncover something larger and stranger than anyone could imagine—a technomystical plot to ‘murder America.’

Time for Karras to meet his deadline.
Visit Nick Mamatas's website.

The Page 69 Test: The Second Shooter.

--Marshal Zeringue