The Man Who Knew We Were Already Nuked

On June 26, 2016, Daniel Mercer watches the world end.The destruction begins like a nuclear attack-but what Daniel witnesses in the final moments is something far stranger. As the world collapses around him, reality itself seems to come apart, atom by atom, in a phenomenon of impossible light. Then Daniel wakes up in a world that looks exactly like the one he lost. The date is June 25, 2016. Everyone is alive. The apocalypse never happened. And no one remembers it-except him.Determined to prove that he isn't losing his mind, Daniel begins documenting everything he remembers. But the evidence starts accumulating: impossible computer records, unexplained neurological patterns, classified sensor anomalies, people who remember things that never happened, and a mysterious symbol-the Coda-appearing wherever the boundary between realities seems to weaken. With the help of a skeptical scientist, an intelligence investigator, a theologian, and a young woman whose very existence contradicts Daniel's memories, he discovers that the impossible event may not have been an accident. Someone-or something-has preserved a record of what happened.But remembering the past comes with a terrible price. As June 26, 2017 approaches, Daniel discovers that the question isn't simply how to save the world. It is whether humanity should be allowed to choose its own future when the consequences of that choice are already known. Faced with a man who believes humanity must be controlled to prevent catastrophe, Daniel must confront the most dangerous idea of all: knowledge does not give you the right to decide for everyone else. Because this time, the world isn't waiting to be saved. It's waiting to see what humanity will choose.