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Big Time
Big Time: A Novel | Ben H. Winters
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In this "wild and wonderful" (Lou Berney) corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "time is money" and makes it frighteningly so, an everywoman FDA employee stumbles upon a dark, clandestine conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time. What if time could be taken from usthe minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom its taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary whos also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.
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CatMS
Big Time: A Novel | Ben H. Winters
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Reading Ben H. Winters new novel while making grits for breakfast. Have loved Ben H. Winters ever since reading The Last Policeman trilogy.

I'm bailing on the book not because I don't like it but I'm not in the mood for it. Will.pick up again later.

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Lesliereadsalot
Big Time: A Novel | Ben H. Winters
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Poor Allie is kidnapped from a playground, leaving her child in the sandbox. Soon after, Grace, who works at a mid level job at the FDA, comes across a photo of Allie in a hospital bed with some sort of odd port inserted in her body. That starts this mystery of who exactly is Allie and how did this port come to be embedded in her body. I found this to be a far fetched story about harvesting time from unsuspecting patients.

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BookBelle84
Big Time: A Novel | Ben H. Winters
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Ben Winters never disappoints. He's in the same class as Blake Crouch and Rob Hart, creating twisty, mind-bending science that comes across as possible. This book is a mix of a thriller and a horror about what would happen if people were able to harvest time. A quick read that I devoured. He has become an auto buy author for me! ##catsoflitsy #alice

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