Influx

How it reads

Influx is science fiction (near-future science fiction thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and justice. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 406 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.