Intercepts

The BookTok insider tip about an overseer in a top-secret government facility where humans are experimented on. He always told himself it was for the greater good - until his work follows him home. This hardcover edition contains a special, previously unpublished short story!

"Inventive, terrifying, thoroughly entertaining and deeply thought-provoking... T. J. Payne is the real deal." - Jose Molina, writer/producer of The Vampire Diaries, Sleepy Hollow and Firefly

Joe works for an organization known only as "The Company." He is not allowed to talk publicly about his work. He and his colleagues live in constant paranoia that The Company is tapping their phones and monitoring their search histories.

On the lowest floor of the facility, people are held in padded cells in extreme sensory deprivation. Their bodies are isolated, their senses shut off - their minds remain awake. Swinging between vegetative states and bursts of violent frenzy, many have lost their minds. The purpose is cruel and at the same time frighteningly effective: When their thoughts transcend the body, they can "intercept" the perceptions of any person in the world - a process that is painful and torturous.

Joe tells himself that this helps the government hunt down "the bad guys" and makes the world safer. Until his ex-wife commits suicide - and rumors surface that a woman who looks just like one of Joe's inmates was stalking her. After her mother's death, Joe's daughter Riley moves in with him. Soon she, too, has visions of the same woman...

Has Joe unwittingly helped to turn the government's darkest weapon against his own daughter? And above all: How far will he go to save Riley?

• Gripping mix of horror and techno-thriller
• Themes: surveillance, guilt, moral gray areas
• Intense father-daughter drama
• Hardcover edition with exclusive, first-published short story