Adjudicator

Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk mystery that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state that controls the genetics of its citizens.

In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are tailor-made. As an Adjudicator, Zedi Loew fixes mistakes and investigates cases brought against the powerful gene-tailoring corporation she works for. One day, she discovers a mysterious cold case file based on an absurd premise: the case implies that gene-coding can manipulate consciousness. Fearing exposure, Zedi's boss makes the case top priority, and she has only a few days to solve it. The case will prove to be an entry into a dangerous labyrinth, and Zedi follows a taut thread of information, one which, she will learn, connects to the structures of the corporation and the government, and even to her own deepest secrets.