“So I had definitely known about entanglement,” he says. And that got Parks to thinking about a novel, although it would be years before the story itself would gel. Entanglement was first speculated about by Albert Einstein, who ultimately dismissed it as “spooky action at a distance,” but it’s since been documented and proven. The concept is strangely simple: when particles are entangled, if you do something to one of them, the same thing will be experienced by the other, no matter how far apart they are. “This is about as wild as I dare to get.” When Parks’ publicist asked for a photo “in the wild” with the new book, this is what he gave her. Despite its escapist feel, the novel is grounded in actual science, building on a phenomenon known as entanglement. Technically, INTERFERENCE has some things that couldn’t happen in the real world … at least not yet. “And to finally giving myself permission to be freer and more creative, and to explore things that never could happen in the real world.” “It starts with me having been a journalist where I am allowed to make up absolutely nothing,” he says.

In some ways, this book feels right in Parks’s wheelhouse-members of a family are threatened by forces beyond their control in a story that moves at a breakneck pace-and in other ways, it’s a sign of a real shift.įor Parks himself, the novel is the latest step in an evolution, as he moves further away from being a reporter and embraces his role as a novelist. Parks is a former newspaper reporter who made a name for himself writing a series about, well, a former newspaper reporter and more recently, with a series of high-concept standalones. These could easily be the elements of a new thriller by Blake Crouch or Michael Crichton, but it’s a welcome surprise to discover this is the premise of INTERFERENCE, a riveting new novel by Brad Parks. A billionaire tech founder will stop at nothing in pursuit of a groundbreaking technology. An ex-cop on the verge of suicide discovers a newfound sense of purpose. A woman with hearing loss tries to navigate the mysterious disappearance of her husband, a brilliant scientist.

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