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margaretatwoodIn her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood describes a future after humanity had been almost entirely wiped out by a plague. Jimmy, aka Snowman, lives... Continue »
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The Digital Plague (Avery Cates)

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Publisher Comments:

Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.

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"This intense sequel to 2007's The Electric Church is a strong techno-thriller, but it doesn't quite match its predecessor in originality. Avery Cates is a killer-for-hire who sold his services to the shadowy System of Federated Nations and destroyed the Electric Church's plans to turn people into cyborg Monks. Now mysterious assailants have infected Cates with a plague of nanobots that kills anyone he encounters and then reanimates the corpses. His condition draws the attention of the System authorities, who wonder why Cates himself has not fallen victim to the disease; they keep him alive in an effort to identify a cure. Amid sometimes flat scenes of gunfighting, betrayal and nanotech zombie uprisings, Cates's noirish narrative voice stands out as the book's real strength. Somers's compelling writing separates this from similar works and offers hope that future volumes will come closer to the quality of the original." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Product Details

ISBN:
9780316022101
Author:
Somers, Jeff
Publisher:
Orbit
Subject:
Murder for hire
Subject:
Science Fiction - Adventure
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Series:
Avery Cates
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
May 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
358
Dimensions:
8.19x5.57x.97 in. .71 lbs.

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