Dare to Know

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Annihilation meets The Last Policemanin this ambitious and immersive speculative thriller set in a world in which you can learn the exact moment of your death-for a price . . . Our narrator is the most talented employee at Dare to Know, a prestigious company in the death-prediction business. But while he has mastered the art of death, the rest of his life is an abject failure. On the day we meet him, he is shaken by a near accident and decides to violate the cardinal rule of his business by forecasting his own death day. The problem- apparently he died twenty-three minutes ago. His death prediction model is never wrong, which means the narrator's life is a violation of nature-and could have widespread consequences. The only person who can truly confirm his prediction is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. She's the only person who has predicted his death before, which remains sealed in a blue envelope in her possession. As he travels across the country to see her