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When the state erases privacy, the protagonist Gabriel Corrigan must flee to remain hidden. His journey pitted against a powerful machine that insists everyone either opts in or is eliminated. Corrigan fights to protect his family and his own freedom, while grappling with a society that sees surveillance as an unavoidable cost of life.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: John Twelve Hawks
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