Observer

<p><b><i>Observer</i>, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of <i>Black Mirror</i> and <i>Altered Carbon</i>.</b><br><br>After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation overcomes any suspicions.<br><br>Watkins’s mysterious medical facility conducts research into the nature of consciousness, reality, and life after death. Two obstacles stand in his way: an intel leak and his failing body may not last long enough for the tech to be ready.<br><br>As danger mounts, Caro finds more than she bargained for: murder, love, and a deep disturbing look into the nature of reality.</p>