Brilliance
The Brilliance Trilogy: Book #1
By Marcus Sakey
Narrated by Luke Daniels / 12 hours 35 minutes
A 2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in—and betray his own kind.
From Marcus Sakey, “a modern master of suspense” (Chicago Sun-Times) and “one of our best storytellers” (Michael Connelly), comes an adventure that’s at once breakneck thriller and shrewd social commentary; a gripping tale of a world fundamentally different and yet horrifyingly similar to our own, where being born gifted can be a terrible curse.
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Brilliance
By: Marcus Sakey
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 1980, one... Read more »
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A Better World
By: Marcus Sakey
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly-anticipated sequel to the Edgar nominated Brilliance
The brilliants changed everything.
Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide... Read more »
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Written in Fire
By: Marcus Sakey
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance Trilogy
For thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.
We failed.
The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden is an internment camp. In Wyoming, an... Read more »
Learn more| Author | Marcus Sakey |
| Narrator | Luke Daniels |
| ISBN | 9781480504769 |
| Length | 12 hours 35 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date | July 16, 2013 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Genres | Fiction & Literature |
| Libro.fm rank | #27,390 Overall |
| Genre rank | #10,597 in Fiction & Literature |