The Man Who Saw Seconds: Book Launch and Live Music

The Man Who Saw Seconds is a Publisher's Weekly notable book for spring/summer 2024, this year's lead title for CLASH Books Publishing (New York), was featured in the American Bookseller Association's annual conference (Winter Institute) and is getting great reviews. Help North Vancouver author Alexander Boldizar celebrate the launch, with a comic and live music from two local bands: Hot Flash and Jet Lag.

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About the book:

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future.

‍Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet-causing another man to die in his place. Government agencies become aware of Preble's gift, a manhunt ensues, and their ambitions shift from law enforcement to military RandD. Preble will do whatever it takes to protect his family, but as events spiral out of control, he must weigh the cost of his gift against the loss of his humanity.

A breathless thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page, The Man Who Saw Seconds explores the nature of time, the brain as a prediction machine, and the tension between the individual and the systems we create. Alexander Boldizar provides an adrenaline-pumping read that will leave you contemplating love, fear and the abyss.

Early reviews:

There are books on brain physiology, books on anarchist philosophy, books on the nature of time. There are certainly books whose hero is pursued by governments of all stripes, books in which the entire world is at stake. There are books whose body counts put Schwarzenegger movies to shame. But there has never been a book to combine all these with supreme intelligence, set not in some remote future but an all-too-plausible present. The Man Who Saw Seconds is the first." -Aaron Haspel, author of Everything

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