Nick Petrie is the author of six novels in the Peter Ash series, most recently The Breaker. His debut, The Drifter, won both the ITW Thriller award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel, and was a finalist for the Edgar and the Hammett Awards.
At CrimeReads, Petrie tagged nine top science fiction novels built on the chassis of crime fiction, including:
The Gone World, by Tom Sweterlitsch (2018)Read about another entry on the list.
The Gone World was recommended to me by my local indie bookseller and I was immediately smitten. The protagonist isNaval investigator Shannon Moss, who is chasing the killers of a Navy Seal’s family and trying to find his missing teenage daughter.
The wrinkle is here is a secret Navy program sending astronauts forward in time to solve the riddle of the impending end of the world that gets closer with each attempt to solve the problem. The storytelling is complex, lyrical, and metaphysical without sacrificing intensity—I could not turn the pages fast enough. Sweterlitsch is very, very good and I can’t wait for his next book.
--Marshal Zeringue
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