Book summary
At the time of writing, every technology described in these final chapters is either operational, in development, or the subject of serious research. The final question is not whether these tools will exist, but who will decide how they are used, and whether anyone else will even know.
Luke must decide what he is willing to sacrifice, and for whom. The line between liberation and control has dissolved. The Meadow was never paradise. It was always a proving ground.
Opening sample
The compass spun in her hand. Sindy was on her titanium-frame mountain bike in Red Rock Canyon and was off-trail, looking to find her bearings.
It was a beautiful fall day, the intense sunlight framed against a cyan sky punctuated by fluffy white clouds. Red Rock Canyon, despite its enclosing sandstone buttes, offered a sense of escape.
The last few days of intense activity had demanded a break, a change of pace, an embrace of Nature. Few protected Sindy, even though she protected many.
Sindy, Sinclair Matthews as she was then, had come back from Afghanistan decorated and damaged in ways the medals did not cover. Military academies followed, then the Marine Corps, then liaison work between federal agencies.
An introduction to Major William Mannihunk proved fateful. Matthews was assigned to secret inter-agency projects and eventually drawn into Dr. Vivian Cho's orbit, where debts, loyalties, and transformations became impossible to separate.
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