When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.
In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.Ĭatarina Agatta is a hacker. “Stunning twists and turns.” - BCCB (starred review) And while Lachlan is always two steps ahead, the biggest threat to Cat may be the secrets buried in her own mind.“Redefines ‘unputdownable.’” -Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Iluminae
Their search takes them to Entropia, a city of genehackers hidden deep in the desert that could also hold the answers about Cat's past that she's been searching for.īut when confronted with lies and betrayals, Cat is forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts. When news arrives that the Hydra virus might not be as dead as they'd thought, the group is pushed into an uneasy alliance with Cartaxus to hunt down Lachlan and fix the vaccine. But she's failing-Cat can't even control her newly regrown panel, and try as she might to ignore them, she keeps seeing glitching visions from her past everywhere she turns.
Camped in the woods with Cole and Leoben, she's working day and night, desperate to find a way to stop Lachlan's plan to reprogram humanity. The nightmare of the outbreak is finally over, but Cat's fight has only just begun.Įxhausted, wounded, and reeling from revelations that have shaken her to her core, Cat is at a breaking point. Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, Cat must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control in this thrilling sequel to This Mortal Coil, which New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman says "redefine's 'unputdownable.'"
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