Extremity - Nicholas Binge

A time-traveling, end-of-the-world police procedural, Extremity is True Detective if written by Philip K. Dick.

When once-renowned police detective Julia Torgrimsen is brought out of forced retirement to investigate the murder of Bruno Donaldson, a billionaire she worked with whilst undercover, she doesn’t expect to find two bodies. Both are Bruno—identical down to the fingerprints—and both have been shot.

As the investigation sucks her back into the macabre world of London’s rich elite, she finds herself on the hunt for a mysterious assassin who has been taking out the wealthy one by one. But when she finally catches up with her quarry, she unveils an entire world of secrets: impossible documents about future stock market crashes, photographs of dead clones, and a clandestine time-travelling conspiracy so insidious it might just mean the extinction of the entire human race.

If Julia is to have any chance of preventing this terrible future, she’ll have to revisit her own past, the terrible choices she made undercover, and the brutal act that destroyed her once legendary career.

Nicholas Binge’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, The FT, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and more.

His work has been translated into eleven languages and multiple works are in development for film and television. Ascension, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick, has been hailed as a must-read “5-star horror novel” by Stephen King, and was a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 for Best Science Fiction novel. His last novel, Dissolution, described as an "expertly crafted puzzle" by New Scientist, released to international critical acclaim.

“Unexpected and exciting [with a] mind-bending conclusion.” —Library Journal

Praise for Nicholas Binge's Ascension

“Old-school creepy. . . a five-star horror novel.” —Stephen King

“Jaw-dropping.” —Cosmopolitan

“A weird and wonderful horror novel. . . Binge is an author to watch.” —TJ Klune

“For fans of well-wrought science fiction and cosmic horror scares, Ascension is worth the climb.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Thrilling, breathlessly paced, and poses thorny questions about time, fate, grief, and the nature of the self.” —Vulture, "Best Books of 2023"

“Thoroughly recommended—a macabre, escapist pleasure for the thoughtful set.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A heady mix of wildly imaginative, action-packed storytelling and probing philosophical examination of—quite literally—the meaning of life….[Ascension is] full of frenetic action and packed with twists and turns, gun fights and villains, but it’s also a sustained reflection on the limits of being human.” —The Chicago Review of Books

“An expert story of creeping dread and cosmological horror.” —Booklist

“Gripping and intriguing.” —Daily Mail