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400 pages, Hardcover
First published February 6, 2018
For a moment Courtney’s death had made horrifying sense, had an identifiable cause, a reason. But the pieces slipped apart. There was no center, no reason. Courtney’s death was random, banal viciousness inflicted by one organism upon another. There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.The Goodreads description sums up the plot of The Gone World pretty well. In a 1997 in which space travel and time travel exist, NCIS investigator Shannon Moss is called in to investigate a crime scene involving the family of a man who was believed lost years earlier on a time-traveling mission. In order to try to solve the case, she travels into the future to learn more quickly what will ultimately be uncovered about the crime. Instead she learns that this crime appears to be connected to the Terminus, an unexplained, Earth-threatening phenomenon that seems to be moving from the far future backwards in time towards the present.
Within two months of her arrival in Virginia Beach, she had time-traveled to the Terminus of humanity and sailed the farthest reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy, bathed in starlight that wouldn’t touch Earth for another two and a half million years.
And some people had left their bodies entirely, had become immortal, living as waves of light - but once they could no longer die, the immortals begged for death, because life without passage of time becomes meaningless. It used to be thought that hell was a lack of God, but hell is a lack of death.