The Voice That Came Back: A Novel

He built a machine to hear his son again. He never imagined what it would say. Eli Marsh can make any voice say anything. It is his life's work - and since the reservoir took his seventeen-year-old son, Caleb, it has been his private torment. Alone at three in the morning, Eli feeds every voicemail, every video, every buried recording of his boy into the machine and builds a voice indistinguishable from Caleb's. It is meant to be a goodbye. Instead, the voice tells him something Eli never told it. Something only Caleb could have known - that his death was no accident. As Eli chases the impossible, the reconstruction keeps surfacing fragments of a truth someone buried with his son. The deeper he listens, the more he understands: the voice is not the only thing that came back. And the man who taught the world to trust a voice is about to learn what a voice can be made to do. A technothriller with the heart of a literary novel - for readers of Blake Crouch and Jodi Picoult. About grief, faith, and the terrible tenderness of the things we build to keep the dead close.