Moving with the pace and momentum of a superb thriller, exploring ideas about language and information as well as identity, "The Raw Shark Texts" is ultimately a novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love.
First things first, stay calm.
If you are reading this, I'm not around anymore. Take the phone and speed dial 1. Tell the woman who answers that you are Eric Sanderson. The woman is Dr. Randle. She'll understand what has happened.
With regret, and also hope, The First Eric Sanderson.
When Eric Sanderson wakes to amnesia and a haunting note from himself, he discovers an eerie world of thought and concept, a world in which ideas have a life of their own. Attacked by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore--including those of a perfect love now lost--Eric discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind but which stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction.Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy bothEric Sandersons forever.
An astounding and daring book by debut novelist Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts confronts readers with a fascinating puzzle aswell as an intensely absorbing story.
