Chance

Written by Matthew FitzSimmons

Narrated by Michael Crouch

A clone plays a dangerous game of life, death, memory, and murder in a twisting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Matthew FitzSimmons.

Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Chance was revived—and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle.

But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met. Has one of his clones? With no memory of his previous selves, and working fast before he’s arrested, Chance digs into Conway’s background, the mysteries of his own life—and death—and the tragic abduction that tore his family apart.

All Chance has to do is stay ahead of the LAPD; his kidnappers, who are back on the hunt; and a growing mob of incensed protesters outraged that a rich clone appears to be getting away with murder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Feb 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781713641322

Matthew FitzSimmons

Matthew FitzSimmons is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling Gibson Vaughn Series, which includes Debris Line, Cold Harbor, Poisonfeather, and The Short Drop. Born in Illinois and raised in London, he now lives in Washington, DC, where he taught English literature and theater at a private high school for more than a decade. Visit him at www.matthewfitzsimmons.com.

Reviews for Chance

[kimkimkim-7 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I admire Matthew FitzSimmons’ talent for writing characters who exist on the margins. I loved the Gibson Vaughn series. I embraced the first book in this Series. Chance was a tougher read for me.Would I have enjoyed this book more if the characters weren’t all so negative and self-absorbed? Probably. Thinking that there was a deeper strata in Chance’s personality, I read on believing that no one could be so narcissistic, so self-destructive - a hint of his humanity could have been exposed earlier in the story. There is a lot to this story - all of FitzSimmons’ books are thought provoking and this one is no exception. However, it was much harder to cut through. The inhabitants of the pages were equally unlikable. Putting that aside I thought the issue of cloning got short shrift and much more attention was paid to whether a clone can be reinstated over and over. Who gets the right to the do-overs? Is the criterion being rich enough? - pay the fee and you can stockpile multiples and do it again and again. What about the moral issue? Can it ever be justified? Lots to think about which never really got out of the starting blocks because there was a story to be told about two brothers who were killed.So thinking about this, I didn’t like the characters, didn’t much care for the premise, thought the story was superfluous to the bigger question but really respect the writing and the underlying issues that never find answers because I am not sure there are answers. Matthew FitzSimmons just is an extraordinary writer. Thank you Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for a copy.