Trust Your Eyes

A Glitch That Shatters Reality

Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay opens with a simple software update gone horribly wrong. Nate Grant, a mild-mannered IT specialist in suburban Chicago, stumbles upon a video clip that challenges the very nature of perception—and sanity. What begins as a routine task to fix a malfunctioning search engine feature quickly spirals into a nightmare when Nate discovers footage of a brutal murder, timestamped in real time and yet completely impossible. As police dismiss his claims, convinced he’s slipped a disk into the wrong directory, Nate realizes that the error is no accident—and that someone is watching his every move.

Web of Lies and Hidden Agendas

Barclay masterfully unravels a conspiracy that stretches from the corridors of corporate power to the darkest corners of the internet. With each keystroke, Nate delves deeper into a labyrinth of corrupted data, anonymous informants, and coded messages that hint at a cabal determined to control truth itself. Betrayal comes in unexpected forms—friends become suspects, colleagues morph into adversaries, and law enforcement officers act more like digital paramilitaries than protectors of justice. Amid this chaos, Nate must depend on his wits, his dwindling privacy, and an unlikely ally: an investigative journalist whose own past is marred by tragedy.

A Race Against the Unblinking Gaze

As the body count rises and the search engine’s glitch morphs into a weapon, Nate and his companion embark on a heart-pounding chase through wind-swept highways and glass-fronted skyscrapers. Every device around them becomes a potential trap—no phone is safe, no camera innocent. In a blistering climax beneath the glow of countless screens, they confront the architects of the digital deception and learn that the ultimate hack is one that can rewrite memory itself. With tension that crackles like a live wire, Barclay delivers a thriller that asks: in a world where seeing is believing, what happens when the images you trust betray you?

. Linwood Barclay is a bestselling Canadian author renowned for his pulse-quickening suspense novels, blending razor-sharp plotting with vivid characters and exploring the hidden perils of modern technology and human trust.