As you read, you feel your perception of the world slipping and warping.

'Winters has a knack for creating appealing detective fictions that skew reality in thought-provoking ways, producing a hybrid of the familiar and the uncanny. 'At a time in the real world when everybody seems to own their version of the truth and phrases like 'alternative facts' are used to cover falsehoods, Golden State is, no lie, a fascinating examination that takes fidelity and correctness down a freaky Orwellian path.' - USA Today And when those in control of the facts twist them for nefarious means, the Speculators are the only ones with the power to fight back. To monitor, verify, and enforce the truth requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance and recording. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to 'speculate' on what might have happened.īut the Golden State is less a paradise than its name might suggest. In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime-and stopping those crimes is Laz's job.

He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder. From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H.

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