Fiction. Science Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:A "cautionary tale about artificial intelligence" (Washington Post) that is almost too frighteningly believable not to be realâ??from the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer
Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes.
When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success, and legendary secrecy, has inspired awe around the world. The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy coupleâ??they were Edenâ??s first perfect match.
A short time later, Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quickâ??and quietâ??investigation into the deaths. Lashâ??s psychological autopsy reveals nothing suspicious, but inadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has kept at bay for years.
The situation changes suddenly when a second Eden couple is found deadâ??by all appearances, another double suicide. Now Edenâ??particularly Richard Silver, the companyâ??s brilliant and reclusive founderâ??has no choice but to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets if he is to have any chance of determining what is going wrong. The hidden world he discovers is a stunning labyrinth of artificial intelligence, creative genius, and a melding of technology that does indeed, to Lashâ??s surprise, deliver on Edenâ??s promise to its clients: the guarantee of a perfect, lifelong mate. But Lashâ??s involvement in the investigation becomes more personal and dangerous than he could have imagined, nearly as soon as it begins.
Infused with relentless suspense and tremendous imagination and skill, Death Match is master thriller