The World Leader: Story of Maxwell Cain

The Corporation just cured death. Nobody read the terms. One year ago, a man named Gabriel stood before the world and made an impossible promise: step inside the towers, accept the dove at your wrist, and death will have no more dominion. Hundreds of millions believed him. >What they didn't know - what Maxwell Cain and his small, hunted Covenant are only beginning to understand - is what the towers are actually doing to the people inside them. The field that holds death at the door holds something else out too. Dreams are thinning. The very old are going quiet in ways that don't have names yet. And in the oldest covered city on earth, a mail carrier three weeks past the hour the doctors gave him is sitting up >Beyond the radius, the world is at war. Inside it, the war is slower and harder to see - fought in server rooms and subbasements and broadcast booths, by a records clerk with six years of forgeries in his drawer, a voice the nation trusted until it didn't, and nineteen-year-old Maxwell Cain, who carries something in his walls that has been patient since his >The machine is alive. The First Day is coming. And somewhere in the deep files of a thousand-year order, a prophecy that has never been read >Who holds the switch? And what has slumbered, all these years, >The World Leader is Book Three of the Maxwell Cain Saga. The Series: Book One: Awakened Book Two: The Wraithgillien Book Three: The World Leader Book Four: The Fall of Eden