Flashback
By: by Dan Simmons
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781780870953
Subjects: Ex-police officers; Fiction; Flashbulb memory; Murder; Investigation; Drug addiction; Future life
Description: The United States is in ruin, with 87% of the country's population addicted to flashback, a drug which allows the user to re-experience moments of the past. Former detective Nick Bottom is also an addict; he began using after his wife died in a car accident, and lost his job and his relationship with his son as result. But when the son of a top government advisor is murdered, Nick is pulled from his pit of despair to investigate.