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In the near future, the Tribune is the only quality news outlet operating in the UK when its star journalist Gavin Wright is murdered with a bomb-rigged drone. Gavin’sprotég#233 Imogen Courtenay finds a locked archive in his files believed to contain classified intel smuggled out of Moscow by a rogue Russian agent. Imogen takes on the mission to crack the password and access information worth killing and dying for. Peter Brown, a columnist from the Tribune, pledges his help. After surviving a recent massacre at Le Monde headquarters in Paris, Peter is obsessed with slain journalists and haunted by the dead lover he left behind in a hail of bullets. As Peter falls in love with Imogen, he seeks to redeem himself and vows not to leave her side. Together, Imogen and Peter make inroads with help from an MI5 ops boss, a password cracker, Gavin’swidow, and an old flame at the Met Police. As soon as Imogen uncovers a massive false-flag operation, assassins move to strike.In tomorrow’sEurope, the threat of terrorism—boh real and manufactured—cotinues when today’semergent tech has become pervasive. Smart devices are smarter and commercial drones have their own traffic corridors. A strong lobby of eCab drivers—wh don’tactually drive their autonomous vehicles—hae banned AerTaxis from the skies. Public spaces are monitored with state surveillance and the government keeps an archive of citizen biometric data. Holograms shimmy and shimmer in strip clubs, cargo-carrying robots bumble along on the sidewalks, and