The impossible can be done—if he can raise enough money. A sci-fi thriller set in the back-stabbing world of New York City’s Silicon Alley.
MOBIUS, INC.
by Adam Fawer
April Yayıncılık (Turkey), October 2024
(via Liza Dawson Associates)
Caleb had it all—brilliant wife, adorable son, fantastic career as CFO at a hot tech startup. But he screws up and in one moment it all vanishes.
His son dies while Caleb is distracted by a work text, his marriage disintegrates, and the arrogant CEO Caleb recruited and mentored for eight years fires him. In a drunken rage, Caleb tweets out every salary at his company. This goes over about as well as you might expect.
Desperate, Caleb agrees to meet with a new start-up recommended by his mentor Jim, a brilliant but callous billionaire venture capitalist.
The company—Mobius, Inc.—is located in one room in a fifth-floor walkup in deepest Brooklyn. The founders—Andy, a slippery trust fund kid, and Rowan, an inscrutable genius physicist—are half Caleb’s age and already hate each other.
But Rowan has invented a Temporal Displacement Portal, a device that receives messages from the future. Instantly Caleb knows: Mobius is his salvation. He will go back in time and save his son. Fix everything.
Rowan says going back is impossible, but after decades in tech, Caleb knows that the impossible can be done—if he can raise enough money.
All he has to do is navigate the venture capitalists who hate him, keep Andy and Rowan from killing each other, and not get fired. Or worse.
Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American Novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has been translated into eighteen languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, Empathy, has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish. Fawer holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer. He lives in New York with his partner and two sons.

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