Lock in

Publisher Marketing: A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the bestselling, Hugo Award-winning John ScalziNot too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent and nearly five million souls in the United States alone the disease causes "Lock In: " Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge. A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated. But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery and the real crime is bigger than anyone could have imagined. BONUS AUDIO This audio edition of "Lock In" contains the bonus novella, "Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome," written by John Scalzi and narrated by a full cast." Review Citations: Audio File 02/01/2015 pg. 48 (EAN 9781501215445, MP3 CD) Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2014 pg. 95 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2014 pg. 95 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Romantic Times 09/01/2014 pg. 50 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2014 pg. 47 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2014 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 08/29/2014 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2014 pg. 31 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) BookPage 09/01/2014 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 56 (EAN 9780765375865, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Scalzi, John John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut Old Man s War won him science fiction s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, and Redshirts; which won 2013 s Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com) has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. Contributor Bio:  Wheaton, Wil Wil Wheaton is an actor, voice artist, author, and award-winning audiobook narrator. Among his movie credits are "Stand by Me" and "Toy Soldiers". His many television credits include "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The Big Bang Theory", and" Generator Rex. "As a narrator of more than a dozen audiobooks, he has twice won the prestigious Audie Award, twice been a finalist for the Audie, and earned an Earphones Award from "AudioFile "magazine.