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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Upstate, Yorkcalled, Salisbury with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Skinner'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Skinner about Starred, Review, Skinner with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense? End with the sentence ' --Keir Graff'.
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conversations.value: *Starred Review* This tour de force features two of the most interesting characters weve seen in years. Skinner, a savant-like killer who struggles to interpret emotions and to speak with normal affect, spent his formative years as part of a bizarre experimentan origin story that unfolds piece by broken piece, each one with fascinating complications. His job is to protect Jae, a damaged, emotionally fragile robotics expert and data analyst with an amazing capacity to sift meaning from massive streams of information. Shes supposed to find the source of an attack on the U.S. power grid. But the motives of the people whove hired them are maddeningly elusive, and, as the job leads them through Europe toward an unlikely plot in a Mumbai slum, they have to wonder whether theyre pawns in one of the most circuitous bait-and-switches of all time. the authors world, where powerful private security firms battle each other for access to the new markets created by global chaos, is cynical, chilling, and eminently believable. The plot itself may be a bit of a stretch, but this is mind-bendingly original, from the characters, to the dialogue, to the sensory-overloaded world that feels eerily like the one were about to live in. Add the author (Sleepless, 2010) to the A-list. --Keir Graff