Meet Your Maker

by Matthew Mather

Overview

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 Bondar 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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538589441
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	07/21/2020
Series:	Delta Devlin Novels Series , #1
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Matthew Mather’s books have sold millions of copies, been translated and published in over twenty-five countries, and optioned for multiple movie and television contracts. After starting his career at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines, Matthew worked in ventures ranging from nanotechnology to cybersecurity before becoming a full-time author of high-concept speculative thrillers.

Editorial Reviews

07/13/2020

In Mather’s strong sequel to 2019’s The Dreaming Tree, Det. Delta Devlin, a millennial with the Suffolk County PD on Long Island, decides to accept a six-month, résumé-building assignment at Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon, France. Soon after her arrival, Delta’s father, an NYPD captain, is critically shot in a botched assassination attempt on the Ukrainian president at the United Nations. The weapon was a handgun made by a 3D printer. Delta tracks a suspect to Kiev, where the 3D printing industry, completely unregulated, thrives in large warehouses that have been converted into printing farms turning out various consumer products, as well as cutting-edge weaponry. As the action alternates between Ukraine and New York, Delta—a savant type who can read micro-expressions—winds up dealing with a lot more than trying to find out who shot her dad. Despite the far-fetched plotting, 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. Agent: Paul Lucas, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc. (July)

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