From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty initial novel of the twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future-perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Evening Vale.

Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming Manhattan bassist called Will Dando awakens from a desire one morning hours with 108 predictions about the future in his head, he rapidly finds himself the about The Oracle 12 months: A Novel most powerful guy in the globe. Protecting his anonymity by phoning himself the Oracle, he sets up a heavily guarded Web site with the help of his friend Hamza to selectively announce his revelations. Very quickly, global corporations are offering him large numbers for exclusive gain access to, eager to benefit from his prophecies.

He’s also making a lot of high-powered foes, from the President of the United States and a nationally prominent televangelist to a warlord having a nuclear missile and an assassin grandmother. Legions of cyber spies are unleashed to hack the Site-as it’s come to be called-and the best manhunters cash can purchase are deployed not only to unmask the Oracle but to take him from the game entirely. With only a small number of people he can trust-including a lovely journalist-it’s all Will can perform to simply survive, elude exposure, and defend those he enjoys long more than enough to make use of his knowledge to save lots of the world.

Delivering fast-paced adventure on a global scale aswell as sharp-witted satire on our concepts of power and faith, Marvel writer Charles Soule’s audacious debut novel takes listeners on the rollicking trip where it’s impossible to predict what will happen next.