You Were Never Really Here. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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You Were Never Really Here
Jonathan Ames, 2013
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Lynne Ramsay, 2017

Joe is a traumatized hired gun who rescues trafficked girls, using brutal methods against their captors. Joe has flashbacks of the abuse he and his mother faced from his violent father, and his brutal past in the military and FBI, and is troubled by suicidal thoughts. McCleary assigns Joe a new job: a New York State Senator, Albert Votto, has offered a large sum of money to discreetly rescue his abducted daughter, Nina.


Naked Singularity. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2008 book, A Naked Singularity
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A Naked Singularity
Sergio de la Pava, 2008
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Chase Palmer, 2021

Casi is a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a successful public defender. When he loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.