Cold Extraction

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Caleb was the best at what he did: a "retriever" for hire, recovering high-value assets from the dark corners of the globe. But his final job-a heavy, lead-lined container pulled from the floor of the Atlantic-wasn't meant to be recovered. It was meant to be buried.When the container breaches, Caleb is exposed to a sentient, liquid-metal lattice that rewrites his nervous system, turning his body into a biological antenna for the Meridian-a global surveillance shadow-cabinet that sees everything, records everything, and forgets nothing. Now, Caleb can see the heat of a heartbeat through concrete and the invisible pulses of every satellite in the sky. He is no longer just a man; he is a walking map of the world's most dangerous secrets.Hunted across the Nevada desert and into the lightless trenches of the Pacific, Caleb must team up with a disgraced scientist to strip the "Anomalous Load" from his veins before the Meridian can use him to bridge the final gap in their total observation of humanity. But as the silver recedes, Caleb realizes that the bridge works both ways-and the only way to escape the grid is to become the one thing a digital world can't track: the silence.

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Pagina's: 120, Paperback, Firebird Publishers