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YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.

‘Fabulous… Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel’
NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline

This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you…

An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other – Prophet – is targeting innocent people. But nobody knows who created it, or why.

Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Lieutenant Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear.

Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future.

‘Prophet is a blast’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘A thrilling dystopian novel’
TIME

***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR***

Publisher Review

It's a fabulous book! ... It's present day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel with real people you can care about. And it's a page-turner -- Neil Gaiman, author of CORALINE Prophet is a crackling, shape-shifting romp with big ideas and a bigger heart. Blache and Macdonald take a no-holds-barred approach to manifesting the ways in which individual desires are exploited by the systems we live under, and ask the necessary question of whether escape from that cycle is possible. This is a display of sheer inventiveness, and a delight -- C PAM ZHANG, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold Prophet is a wildly fun, inventive, funny, and terrifying book, with a superb mystery that gets ever more compelling and weird and, horrifyingly, familiar. This book finds the nightmare in the comforting lies we tell ourselves about our pasts, and how they inform our present -- Phil Klay, author of MISSIONARIES A genre-blending SF fantasy thriller about the weaponisation of nostalgia * Guardian, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * Prophet promises to bring back everything you lost and now yearn for... Proper science fiction - self-aware, funny, ruthlessly propulsive, full of invention... I loved it -- M. John Harrison, author of THE SUNKEN LAND BEGINS TO RISE AGAIN A hyperkinetic headrush of a novel that proves its organic bona fides by getting you drunk with ideas before casually and cataclysmically breaking your heart -- Paraic O'Donnell, author of THE MAKER OF SWANS Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it -- CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of We Begin at the End