The hand belongs to the driver of the car and was supposed to have died at the scene. When a severed hand turns up, Marisa is determined to find out about the car accident that left her with a prosthetic arm. There’s a lot going on here, but it’s mostly a mystery. It’s set in the year 2050 in Los Angeles, where everyone has the Internet in their brains and social media has pretty much taken over everything.īut the setting is not a substitute for the plot. This is the third in the trilogy, following Bluescreen and Ones and Zeroes. If Mari wants the truth, she’s going to have to go through genetically enhanced agents, irritatingly attractive mob scions, and some bad relationships to get it.ĭan Wells’s widely acclaimed series continues with his most shocking, pulse-pounding, and visionary story yet. And when she and her friends start digging, they uncover a conspiracy that runs from the slums of Los Angeles to the very top of the world’s most powerful genetic engineering firm. If Zenaida is-or was-still alive, it means there’s even more about Marisa’s past that she doesn’t know.

Those secrets rise violently to the surface, however, when Zenaida de Maldonado’s freshly severed hand shows up at the scene of a gangland shooting.

Even in a world where technology exists to connect everyone’s mind to one another, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden. From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the third and final book in the dark, pulse-pounding, sci-fi neo-noir series that began with the acclaimed novel Bluescreen.įor all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, there has been one that has always eluded her: the truth behind the car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss’ wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life.

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