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Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial technology have empowered its economy, the fragile society is undermined by secret crimes, rifts between generations, government censorship, and a legacy of casting out those who suffer from radiation sickness. Embittered survivor Hadrian Booneonce a revered colony founderhas been hounded by despair and the ghosts of his past into a life of drunkenness and frequent imprisonment for challenging the governors tyranny. But when a gentle old man, the colonys leading scientist, is murdered, Hadrian glimpses chilling secrets behind the killing that could destroy the colony. Realizing that he may be the only one able to expose the truth, Hadrian begins a desperate quest through the underbelly of the colony into the wrenching camps of the outcasts, escorted by a young policewoman who struggles to cope with the physical and emotional remnants of the prior world. Ultimately, Hadrians journey becomes one of self-discovery. In his search to find justice, his greatest challenge is navigating the tortuous path of the human spirit in a world that has b

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Author

Pattison, Eliot

Publisher

Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582438771

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.43 / 5 (303 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13