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Narrated by:
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Kiff VandenHeuvel
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By:
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Ben Winters
From award-winning New York Times best-selling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.
In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible.
In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime - and stopping those crimes is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to "speculate" on what might have happened.
But the Golden State is less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the truth requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance and recording. And when those in control of the facts twist them for nefarious means, the Speculators are the only ones with the power to fight back.
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Critic reviews
"At a time in the real world when everybody seems to own their version of the truth and phrases like "alternative facts" are used to cover falsehoods, Golden State is, no lie, a fascinating examination that takes fidelity and correctness down a freaky Orwellian path."—USA Today
"Winters has a knack\nfor creating appealing detective fictions that skew reality in\nthought-provoking ways, producing a hybrid of the familiar and the uncanny. . . As you read, you feel your perception of the world slipping and warping. Winters brilliantly imagines the quotidian\nmanifestations of a truth-obsessed culture."—Washington Post"
"Once again, Ben H. Winters creates a world cleverly skewed a few crucial degrees from our own. . . . Winters is well aware of the tropes of dystopian noir, and it is fun to watch him mix and match them to good effect. . . . The detective plot works well, but it is in its questioning of the nature of truth and falsehood that the novel excels. . . . Smart, intricate and propulsive, Golden State is proof that Winters deserves our continued attention as one of crime fiction's most inventive practitioners."—San Francisco Chronicle
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Fascinating but no ending
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I like Winters' work in general - have read several others from Audible and figure they are all well work the credits (Last Policeman, Underground Airlines).
Narration is good. There is nothing graphic.
Quite an interesting alternative future story
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Wonderful Narration
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Is this our future ?
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Very Different!
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Worth it
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This is my new favorite noir thriller
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fantastic narration, uneven plot
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Modern Day 1984
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