Fight Me
- Author Austin Grossman
- Narrator Adam Sims
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 11 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
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Dr Rick Tower is a mild-mannered English professor easing into middle-age at a medium-sized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable.
But it wasn’t always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told him: ‘pretend you were never different’.
Because, decades earlier after a very bad day at high school, he was committed to a secret government facility with three other kids, Cat, Jack and Stephanie, each special in their own way. Tested, tutored and trained, this extraordinary quartet were then told to save the world.
It was the best thing that ever happened to them. Until it became the worst.
Now, twenty years after the tragedy that forced him into academic non-entity, a mysterious disappearance means Tower must reunite with his former comrades. Each returns with their own agenda. And while great power come might come with great responsibility, there’s little of that on display from any of them.
Combining compelling storytelling and fierce imagination with a rich cast of characters, Fight Me is a page-turning and distinctive thriller, a unique tale of good and evil, and a memorable portrait of man trying to do the right thing at any cost. Against impossible odds …
‘A treasure that manages to be sad, funny, and hilariously fun at all once. A thrilling adventure but also a searing, intimate look at what it would really cost to have such incredible power, and yet still be human.’
Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers
‘Fight Me embraces the fun of the genre, while treating its battle-weary characters with heart and empathy. A noir-tinged Big Chill for the superhero set.’
Bob Proehl, author of The Nobody People
©2024 Austin Grossman (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes
Hugely enjoyable. It kept me up till 3am
The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club in this wry and engaging superhero drama
A treasure that manages to be sad, funny, and hilariously fun at all once. A thrilling adventure but also a searing, intimate look at what it would really cost to have such incredible power, and yet still be human
Fight Me embraces the fun of the genre, while treating its battle-weary characters with heart and empathy. A noir-tinged Big Chill for the superhero set
Grossman’s novel of wealth, power, fraught loves and friendships flexes epic muscles beneath its superhero costume
A sucker-punch of sheer delight, and I couldn’t be happier to be on the receiving end
There is a vibrancy to the writing, and a beating heart, reminiscent of my favourite coming-of-age novels
Combining a coming-of-age story with costume thrills … it has sly, smart things to say
A superhero story unlike any I’ve read before … this is definitely worth checking out
For all the kapows and wisecracks, it is a strangely sweet and sentimental novel
Blending the lurid, anything-goes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences … where every argument or falling-out can potentially happen on a cosmic scale . . . but a melancholy tone gives its quieter moments a surprising impact
Truly exceptional … Fight Me is a wonderful, action-packed superhero sci-fi adventure . . . Funny, fierce and engaging, it’s an amazing journey through a strange world of very real humans (who are also superhuman)
A gripping, often funny tale with an unusual twist . . . I would dearly love to see this adapted to the graphic novel form, but I highly recommend this in the meantime . . . It’s terrific
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