WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS

Is the soul of a human found in flesh and bone, or is it some ephemeral consciousness that can't be touched? And what if it could? Narrator Jake Fairbrother gently probes these questions in his performance of an audiobook that asks listeners to examine the essence of mortality. If that essence could be downloaded into a new body, who is to say which is real? With a slight British accent, Fairbrother speaks in nervous, hushed tones as an agent of the neo-Soviet state of Caspian performs a mission so secret that even he is kept in the dark. Fairbrother's pleasant delivery allows the listener to share the journey of discovery that follows with Nikolai South, a pawn in a cold war between "intelligent" machines and the last true humans. M.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2022]