{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Punch Escrow","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-punch-escrow","description":"It\u0026#39;s the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We\u0026#39;ve genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport - a secretive firm headquartered in New York City. Their slogan: Departure...Arrival...Delight!\n\nJoel Byram, our smartass protagonist, is an everyday 22nd century guy. He spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to act more human, jamming out to 1980s new wave - an extremely obscure genre - and trying to salvage his deteriorating marriage. Joel is pretty much an everyday guy with everyday problems - until he\u0026#39;s accidentally duplicated while teleporting. Now Joel must outsmart the shadowy organization that controls teleportation, outrun the religious sect out to destroy it, and find a way to get back to the woman he loves in a world that now has two of him.","author_name":"Tal M. Klein","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/tal-m-klein","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30384002/content.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":196}