"The Man Who Saw Seconds is an action thrillerthat is genuinely thrilling: the pacing is perfect, and the stakes ratchet up in a horrifying, relentless, and seemingly inevitable progression...I hope this can be genre-spanning, and that it gets the attention it deserves from every awards list, science fiction and not." Locus Magazine
This is a book of cinematic velocity and frequent, dark satiric impact. Think of it as a brilliant exercise in multi genre collage, a mash-up of some of the best elements of the thriller, the novel of ideas, anarchism, philosophy and quantum theory. Highly recommended. Vancouver Sun
The Man Who Saw Seconds is one of the more audacious and emotionally brutal thrillers Ive ever readYou wouldnt think a few seconds of precognition would be that formidable a power, but the author makes a compelling case for how someone could pretty much take over and/or destroy the world if they leveraged the skill properly. The protagonist just wants to live in peace with his family, but that world wont allow it. This one hit me hard in the dadfeels. Tim Pratt, Hugo Award-winning author, Ten for 2024
There are books on brain physiology, books on anarchist philosophy, books on the nature of time. There are certainly books whose hero is pursued by governments of all stripes, books in which the entire world is at stake. There are books whose body counts put Schwarzenegger movies to shame. But there has never been a book to combine all these with supreme intelligence, set not in some remote future but an all-too-plausible present. The Man Who Saw Seconds is the first. Aaron Haspel, author of Everything
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a thinking readers thriller, the story of a simple family guy who just happens to be able to see five seconds into the future. Meticulously researched, surprisingly philosophical, The Man Who Saw Seconds is a brilliant page-turner, a book about brain function and perception, national intelligence systems and law enforcement, the nature of time and space. A lot of smart people cant write fictiontoo smart, too self-absorbed. But Boldizar is one of our happy exceptions. This book is a blast. Pete Duval, author of The Deposition
Alexander Boldizar's brilliantly wild The Man Who Saw Seconds is part thriller, part gunfight (hell of a gunfight), part intellectual examination of what we mean when we say 'freedom,' and all heart. Absurd, hilarious, and deadly serious, this is the rare novel that is both compulsively readable and philosophically deft. If the thought of Kafka as a chess boxer, or Kundera fighting a polar bear excites you, this is definitely the book for you. Mark Powell, author of Hurricane Season
With Jason Bourne's frenetic pace and The Terminator's body count, The Man Who Saw Seconds is at the surface an action-packed thriller. But as I raced through the pages I also delighted in Boldizar's intelligence and humor asbit by bithe shows us how male decision cycles and egos can escalate the mayhem. I kept thinking, 'No, he won't, but then he did, and I was fascinated at every turn. This nail-biting novel left me blinking, reeling and contemplating fear and love, and the horrifying extremes we'll go to for each. Emma Payne, author of Technology with Curves
The Man Who Saw Seconds opens with a subway shootout straight out of The Matrix and never lets up. Filled with action, deeply philosophical, and bitterly funny, the book makes you ask yourself what you would do with one slender superpower. In Prebble Jefferson, Boldizar has created a protagonist worthy of Yurick, Pynchon, or Toole, with an added element of magic. The book is an outrageously fun ride. And for all its adventure, at its heart it is the story of a father's love for his wife and child, for whom he will do anything. Andrew Case, author of The Big Fear
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller that starts with a bang and never lets up. No novel in recent memory answers the question as convincingly: Will I risk destroying the world to save the people I love? Boldizar raises stakes to world-tipping proportions and I literally lost sleep turning pages to discover what happens next. Seconds is a science fiction tour de force. Martin Ott, author of Dream State
By turns hilarious and harrowing, The Man Who Saw Seconds is our eras Dr. Strangelove, a brilliantly conceived sci-fi absurdist romp, where one mans tussle with local law enforcement escalates into a battle against the larger social institutions we labor to uphold while struggling to survive within, prisoners of our own fears. For in the derangement of time we must face both monsters and the abyss, while taking care to remember: to fight a monster is to risk becoming one yourself. Joe Pan, author of Operating Systems
The action sequences in The Man Who Saw Seconds are beautifully written, with as much kinetic energy as the bullets Preble dodges. Boldizar has written an un-putdown-able thriller that is extraordinarily fast paced, hard edged and well researched. Marc Marins, Instructor, Gracie Survival Tactics for Law Enforcement and SWAT
Preble Jefferson may very well be our first post-singularity anti-hero. Boldizar writes Preble a brain that takes predictive processing to a logical conclusion, or at least logical enough to get everyone from sci-fi geeks to theoretical neurobiologists atwitter at the possibilities. A brain and his man against a machine and its men; bad men, lost men, scared men. In Preble Jefferson, Boldizar makes us wonder if we have been looking for the singularity in the wrong direction. Galen Buckwalter, PhD, CEO of psyML and founding scientist at eHarmony
The Man Who Saw Seconds is wickedly smart, outrageously funny, and unsettling in its accuracy. The satire is pointed, and the action is non-stop. Think: Elmore Leonard meets Nabokov, Michael Crichton meets Vonnegut, Carl Hiaasen meets Joseph Heller. And it has what is probably the best gunfight in literary history. But this book is more than a fast-paced satire. Its a warning for America, for the world, really. And, at its core, its a poignant love story. The Man Who Saw Seconds is destined to be a classic and, with it, Boldizars place as one of literatures most important satirical writers is assured. Kevin Winchester, author of Sunflower Dog
As a federal SWAT officer for over 20 years, it is extremely difficult to depict or explain the murky world of violence and its sliding scale of negative human interactions. The Man Who Saw Seconds not only shows a nuanced insight into that world but does it within a story that you cant put down. Sergeant JD McLeod, National Team Leader, Emergency Response Team (SWAT)
This book has stuck to my ribs in a way I almost cant explain. I flew through it, but in a way that I didnt want to. I wanted to savor it. But the action was so good, it made me keep reading much longer in a sitting than I wanted to. And then I was left with all these questions that Im still grappling withwhich is the best kind of fiction. Daniel Ford, Writers Bone
One of the most dazzling and inventive [ books] Ive read in a very long timea novel I continue to describe as indescribable. Boldizar has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Heller and Stephen King, and that says much of what you can expect when you enter the world of The Man Who Saw Seconds. Ive now read the book twice, and I cant decide if its a thriller, a farce, a political commentaryI dont know what it is other than I love it. Jim Fusilli, Writers at Work
