About
Robert Barone has been writing short stories and articles for twenty years, fitting them into whatever moments life offered. When life finally offered more time, he turned to the novel that had been lurking in his mind for a decade. HALF WHO KNOWS is his first novel and the opening book of a planned trilogy. He is now drafting the second. A career directing healthcare operations gave him a working fluency in the scientific world the book inhabits. An avid hiker in the forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest, he lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and daughter.
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HALF WHO KNOWS
HALF WHO KNOWS, an upmarket speculative thriller, complete at 99,000 words. It recently reached Black List Recommended status, with multiple evaluations of 8 or higher, a designation the Black List notes fewer than 1% of manuscripts achieve.
Kenji Shaw is half Japanese and half — who knows. When his hand begins turning transparent, his search for answers leads to the half he never knew, and to a biotech empire that has spent sixty years making people like him disappear.
