Description: "New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the countrys remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxiss wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the games rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal-looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mals sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLifes developer, and puts her in the kind of danger shes only experienced through her avatar. Author Kornher-Staces adult science fiction debut-Firebreak- is loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save"--

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