Description
When Aisha's husband vanishes in plain sight, she is pulled into a nightmare to find him in this race-against-time tech thriller...
'A clever, timely and thrilling page turner' Jo Callaghan
'Outstanding' Abir Mukherjee
'A first-rate thriller' William Shaw
'Pulsating' Vaseem Khan
After the murder of his best friend, newlyweds Adam and Aisha cut their honeymoon short. But just as they are about to board a flight home from Delhi, Adam disappears at the airport - seemingly kidnapped - leaving Aisha stranded without her passport, her phone, or answers.
When the FBI and India's intelligence agency begin interrogating her, it becomes chillingly clear they know far more about Adam than she ever did. Her only clue is his final, haunting message: I'm sorry.
Thousands of miles away, Sara Wolf, a scientist stuck on a dead-end project at Princeton, receives a message she never expected from her former lover. It contains two words: Help her.
Bound together by suspicion, rivalry, and a man they both love, Aisha and Sara are forced into an uneasy alliance. Decoding Adam's clues, they follow a trail that leads them across the United States - into a shadow world of weaponised AI, tech billionaires, and a secret no one is meant to find.
Eden Falls is a gripping, high-stakes thriller that spans continents and asks how far we will go - and who we will trust - when the truth can destroy everything.
READERS ARE LOVING EDEN FALLS:
'Brilliant. Intelligent. Nailbiting.'
'One of the best speculative thrillers I've read in a long time.'
'Futuristic, believable and thrilling . . . This absolutely has to be made into a film or a tv series.'
'An absolute page turner of a novel!'
'Very hard to put this one down'
About the Author
Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children's book - Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. Eden Falls, his first standalone thriller, was published in July 2026.
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures. The Patriot is the latest book in the series.
Reviews
A clever, timely and thrilling page turner, this speculative a thriller will engage your brain as well as your heart: think CONTACT meets THE DA VINCI code. Gripping and thought provoking, take a bow Ajay Chowdhury! * Jo Callaghan *
An uncannily prescient and brilliantly suspenseful thriller about our worst AI nightmares * Amanda Craig *
Set in a near future far too realistic for comfort, this book had me both riveted and scared out of my wits for what awaits us. No one writes about the risks of our shiny AI driven future with the authority and assuredness of Chowdhury. The real genius is wrapping it in such a break-neck story. I'd wager this book will make you think more than any other thriller you read this year. Outstanding. * Abir Mukherjee *
'A rollercoaster read that lifts the lid on the world of tech. Fast and furious - I stayed up all night to finish it.' -- Orlando Murrin
'Fuses topical, rogue-tech concerns with classic sci-fi and a pulsating chase adventure. Reminiscent of Michael Crichton, this is a SF technothriller for the AI age' * Vaseem Khan *
A first rate thriller that's both highly tense and deeply thoughtful. Taut and very timely, and written by a man with a real grasp of tech bro culture. * William Shaw *
The combination of all-too-credible horror, a gripping chase, lovely descriptions and the tenderness that was a feature of Chowdhury's earlier works . . . make for a splendid novel. * Literary Review *
With futurist Chowdhury working in the field of advanced AI, this speculative thriller is terrifyingly plausible * Heat *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787305502
Author Ajay Chowdhury
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Harvill
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 546g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 152mm * 34mm
