Among those missing and presumed dead in the attack-Blaxton was spared while attending a conference in Columbus-were his wife Theresa Marie and their unborn daughter. The story begins in Washington D.C., where research firm archival assistant John Patrick Blaxton investigates a claim for Hannah Massey, a Carnegie Mellon student who disappeared ten years ago, shortly before what the world comes to know as "Pittsburgh" occurred when an Islamic terrorist detonated a nuclear device in Katz Plaza, reducing half a million people and most of the Steel City to ash. It's an ambitious play and the first-time author pulls it off. This is far enough in the future to require true vision in portraying how certain technological and geopolitical shifts could transform American life, but not so far in the future that the author wouldn't need to ground his concepts in present reality.
Published in 2014, Sweterlitsch shoots for a very difficult floor routine with his first book, aspiring to a hard boiled detective mystery set fifty or so years from today. My introduction to the fiction of Tom Sweterlitsch is his debut novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and this is one of the most thrilling pieces of futuristic science fiction that I've read.
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