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After a runaway nanotechnology ravaged all warm‑blooded life above 10,000 feet, Earth’s survivors spiraled into conflict, provoking another war that saw North America taken by Russian and Chinese forces. Amid the devastation, Ruth Goldman, a nanotech scientist, and Cam Najarro, a former Army Ranger who helped bring the war to an end, find brief refuge in a hidden Rocky Mountain village. Yet the race for weaponized nanotech has not ended. A new contagion sweeps across America, forcing Ruth and Cam to regroup with allies and rivals to uncover the source of this second plague. Their investigation leads them to a shocking revelation: the creator may be an old enemy presumed dead.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Jeff Carlson
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