Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.
Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother’s sudden reappearance.
In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.
Genre: Mystery
Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother’s sudden reappearance.
In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"A startling work of art: even as its sentences make precise, jujitsu moves on the reader, Tracy O'Neill's Quotients keeps us keyed to intimacy, to love, to a family's moving domestic world. With a plot that's intricate but intimate, global and domestic, this novel pulls us deep into surveillance's dark web, but, grounded in love, it offers us a way out: an awesome artistic feat." - Gina Apostol
"Quotients is a novel perfectly tuned to our times, and it contains more artistry and intelligence than our times perhaps deserve. Tracy O'Neill has constructed the moving story of a young couple trying to build their lives within a divided and constantly dividing world of big data, small faith, political gaming, and unquantifiable fear. A superb and enlivening exploration of paranoia and the search for intimacy." - Jonathan Lee
"Thoroughly engaging and savvy. Part thriller, part mystery, part alarming critique of the world we're all living in without most people knowing it. Also, surprisingly, a love story rendered in galloping prose that takes you all over the map." - Fiona Maazel
"Quotients is a stunning novel. O'Neill asks us to take a look at the nature of and the necessity for secrecy--in both our most intimate relationships and on the global scale--while reminding us of its inevitable demise in an age of eroding privacy. An entrancing, incendiary book--the ideas within these pages, and their implications, will haunt you for a good long while." - Lauren Wilkinson
"Quotients is a novel perfectly tuned to our times, and it contains more artistry and intelligence than our times perhaps deserve. Tracy O'Neill has constructed the moving story of a young couple trying to build their lives within a divided and constantly dividing world of big data, small faith, political gaming, and unquantifiable fear. A superb and enlivening exploration of paranoia and the search for intimacy." - Jonathan Lee
"Thoroughly engaging and savvy. Part thriller, part mystery, part alarming critique of the world we're all living in without most people knowing it. Also, surprisingly, a love story rendered in galloping prose that takes you all over the map." - Fiona Maazel
"Quotients is a stunning novel. O'Neill asks us to take a look at the nature of and the necessity for secrecy--in both our most intimate relationships and on the global scale--while reminding us of its inevitable demise in an age of eroding privacy. An entrancing, incendiary book--the ideas within these pages, and their implications, will haunt you for a good long while." - Lauren Wilkinson
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