Meet Your Maker
by Matthew Mather
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Pub Date Jul 21 2020 | Archive Date Aug 18 2020
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Description
In this future, reality is what you make it.
In the Czar’s Suite of Kiev’s five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room.
An ocean away, Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex–KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building.
As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin tracks down infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar at the Maker Faire, a global gathering of hackers. Desperate, she follows Korshunov and Bondor into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness. Something is coming for her, and it may not even be alive.
With Russian troops massed on the borders, and her father on the brink of death, Del follows a trail of bizarre murders ever deeper into no-man’s-land. But can she uncover the truth and save her father before a new kind of war forever alters the world?
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Mather’s brand of speculative fiction is solidly rooted in technology’s near-term potential, rather than more fanciful, distant social and economic threats. He forces readers to contemplate a world, unnerving yet conceivable, that could soon be their own.”
-Publishers Weekly
“A mind-bending new series by the master of technothrillers…Anyone that says there isn’t a truly unique story anymore hasn’t read Matthew Mather’s Delta Devlin novels.”
-Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Sons of War and the Hell Divers series
“Another home run from one of the genre’s top authors. Mather once again artfully weaves nail-biting action and high-tech wizardry into a relentless thrill ride.”
-Steve Konkoly, Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller
“Mather has crafted a whip-smart and quick-footed international thriller with a likable protagonist and a plot honed out of hardwood. Taut, tightly crafted, and thrilling.”
-Dana Haynes, author of St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781538589441 |
| PRICE | $25.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Jeff (Old Account) S, Reviewer
Intriguing Possibilities. This is similar in its application of emerging tech to Michael Crichton's Prey - a couple of the scenes here in particular brought that tale *immediately* to mind - while doing an excellent job of using real-world politics as an equally interesting backdrop to the science/ science fiction. Mather plays with the ideas of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in fascinating and terrifying ways - ways one hopes no one gets too many ideas from. Excellent story, and very much recommended.
Robin L, Media/Journalist
MEET YOUR MAKER – Matthew Mather
The Delta Devlin Novels – Book 1
Blackstone Publishing
ISBN-10: 1538589443
ISBN-13: 978-1538589441
ASIN: B084X3L2J4
July 21, 2020
Mystery Suspense
New York and Kiev, Ukraine
As a detective at the Suffolk County Police, Delta (Del) Devlin’s day turns bad when she tracks a young man who is believed to have invaded the department’s technical service office and taken something from a 3-D printer. She catches him, but in trying to save him from a fall off the police headquarters building, they both go over. She survives. Then she learns the FBI has denied her application, but she is offered a position to work in Lyon, France, by Director Katherine Dartmouth of Interpol. Dartmouth is interested in Del’s unique vision. Her eyes pick up colors that other peoples’ eyes don’t. She has learned to use this gift to judge if people are telling the truth or lying. She remains undecided about the Interpol offer until another disaster happens. At a UN gathering, Del’s father, an NYPD officer, is shot when someone attempts to kill the Ukrainian prime minister. Her father lives but is very ill and may not survive. Delta accepts Director Dartmouth’s offer, as this might let her get to Kiev and perhaps find the man believed to have shot her father. She discovers what she and everyone believes might not be the truth.
In this first volume of the Delta Devlin Novels series, suspect everything. Del does, but her love for her family drives her. She will discover disturbing things, not only about politics and survival but about her family, too. From 3-D printers manufacturing untraceable guns and other types of weapons, to online defamation, and the ability to alter videos, things all present in today’s disturbing society, and everyone telling her lies, Del has a hard path to find the truth. She questions everything, which in the long run takes her to some very strange and dangerous places and makes her question why she was hired. MEET YOUR MAKER is an interesting, suspenseful, and emotional adventure.
Robin Lee.
