Stephen Leeds: Death & Faxes

Written by Brandon Sanderson, Max Epstein, David Pace and Michael Harkins

Narrated by Oliver Wyman

From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-authors Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, comes an audio-first techno-thriller addition to the universe of Stephen (Legion) Leeds.

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It’s his hallucinations who are all quite mad.A one-man team of experts, Stephen Leeds is a genius of unparalleled mental capabilities who can learn new skills or master entire scholarly disciplines in mere
hours. However, these skills come at a price. Stephen must compartmentalize his brain, with each of his new skill sets being held by an “aspect”—a hallucination his mind creates with their own fully developed personality, life, and limitations. Without
these aspects, and the delicate construct of reality they provide for him, Stephen is unable to control his mind and engage with the real world.

So when an unprecedented Internal Revenue Service data breach stumps the FBI, Stephen is brought in to investigate. With the help of his aspects, he must uncover the connection between millions of stolen tax returns, a mysterious hacker named Enoch,
a strange, cutting-edge technology that uses soundwaves to transfer data, and a nearly extinct Mesopotamian religion which once rivaled Christianity. What Leeds discovers along the way will reveal the devastating consequences of this new
technology, test the limits of his aspects, and lead him face to face with a man hellbent on vengeance, for which no cost is too high.

Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes is a new entry in Brandon Sanderson’s Stephen Leeds saga and chronologically takes place between the novellas Legion and Legion: Lies of the Beholder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781980062868

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. His bestsellers have sold 32 million copies worldwide and include the Mistborn saga; the Stormlight Archive novels; and other novels, including The Rithmatist, Steelheart, and Skyward. He won a Hugo Award for The Emperor's Soul, a novella set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. Visit his website for behind-the-scenes information on all his books.

Reviews for Stephen Leeds

[Gerard Neaux · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

For some reason, this doesn't feel like Sanderson. It's not quirky and light-hearted but whiny and self important. The main character makes a drama of the physical well-being of his aspects when he and they all know they're hallucinations. The loss of an aspect is described as a tragedy because his experience--his INEXISTENT personal experience--would be lost forever. It's fabricated drama. The main spends tons of money on flying his aspects first class in a disaster of un self awareness when those money could make a huge difference if donated to charity. He's just a rich eccentric ahole overly preoccupied with himself, coming across as stupid and anal. The dialogue is boring, largely composed of authorial fumbling interlaced with bits of exposition, and the plot is unsurprising and tedious. Even the narrator's voice sounds like a man in his 50s who's let himself go and hasn't much interesting anything to say.

[Roy Cimafranca · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I work with computers. The amount of Hollywood hacking going on is ludicrous and takes me out of the story.


I wasn’t able to finish past a few chapters.