Cinco de Mayo

Secrets: some feel freed having them out. Others will kill to keep them.

On May 5, in a flash of pain, every man, woman and child on the planet receives a second set of memories. A new name, a new language, a whole new life slips into their minds, along side their own.

In Chicago, a transit worker knows enough about the Aryan Brotherhood to mark him for death.

In Abu Dhabi, a playboy experiences modern day slavery.

In New York an advertising executive shares the memories of a blind railroad worker in China.

In this transparent world of instant intimacy, no one is left untouched...

Everyone has secrets.

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PRAISE for Cinco de Mayo:

Shortlisted for the Alberta Reader’s Choice Award.

“Cinco de Mayo may not be a novel that sits in the heartland of science fiction, but it is genre. It’s more of a gateway novel, one that can be used to introduce readers to sf. It’s a quick, easy and thought-provoking read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Cinco de Mayo is not just a good book, it’s a book worth reading” - Ian Sales, SF Chronicles

“Martineck uses Cinco de Mayo to put forth an fantastic idea and makes you believe it could happen.” - Mike Griffiths, Innsmouth Free Press

“This first novel has a very interesting idea, somewhat reminiscent of Robert J. Sawyer’s Flashforward. Some mysterious events causes everyone on Earth to acquire the memories of another human being – apparently randomly – as well as keeping their own. This might not seem all that monumental, but as we all know, everyone has secrets and it’s unsettling to know that someone out there knows everything we know...” - Don D’Ammassa

“His writing flows naturally, his characters speak as if they were real people, and his setting seems so real that I wouldn’t be surprised to find it on a normal, everyday roadmap. I wound up being firmly convinced that this place, these people, are real and living just out of sight, somewhere.” - Dan L. Hollifield