Tronick

"Ghost in the Shell meets the Millennium series in this quintessentially American cyberpunk thriller." "Visually expletive and quietly raw. A thoroughly satisfying read!" "This is one of the best dystopian novels I've read-a great balance of suspenseful action and compelling reflection on how much we are all controlled by our circumstances." Too tall to see beyond and impossible to breach, the iconic wall encompassing California-Annex is nothing more than a forgettable reality for generation PW1.6. Within the walls, the population has boomed, cities stretch further into the sky, and the Green Initiative ensures vegetation covers virtually every surface. It is a glistening emerald dystopia where society and the authoritative Governance have wrapped themselves into a codependent relationship-but that relationship is beginning to disintegrate. On the surface, Fiona Tronick looks like a grungy pusher selling shine in back alleys, but underneath her bad jokes and bad attitude, she's a street operative known as a Controller-and she's always been loyal to the system. When a milky-eyed stranger hands her a briefcase of evidence pointing toward her employer's cover-up of an influencer's disappearance, she's intrigued. But when asked to execute that same milky-eyed messenger, Tronick starts to question what else they are hiding from her. As she rubs shoulders with political leaders in coastal mansions, confronts religious zealots in flooded San Diego, reconnects with her outlaw brother, and taps into the gritty underworld of the Trenches, she begins to see the lies go deeper and wider than she could have ever imagined. Everything is connected. Connected to her ...