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In the year 2112, Federal Agent Chuz Alawode has little to investigate. Under the protection of the technocratic rule of the Order, violence and crime have been reduced to rare anomalies. When people do fall through the cracks of the near-perfect system, Chuz is there to find out what went wrong. But when his wife falls a hundred stories from their Chicago apartment, he''s given an assignment far from home. Grieving is not allowed under the Order.

Chuz is sent to 99 Town, a Luddite enclave where all modern technology has been rejected.  The daughter of two Chicago elites has been murdered, and it''s up to Chuz to find the killer. Thrown into a world of dirty streets, vulgar detectives, loud muscle cars, corrupt police, and violent smugglers, he''s overwhelmed and ill-equipped. When Chuz discovers an android in 99 Town, he begins to suspect the Order might be pulling all the strings behind the current, including the string that dropped his wife out of a one hundredth floor window. In order to learn the truth and survive in 99 Town, he''ll need to forget everything he''s ever thought he knew about the Order.

99 Town burns in the distance, and Chuck Alawode, former Federal Agent of the Order, finds himself in a precarious situation. Either help the Underground rebel collective he''s been fighting against for years, or be handed over to the Order for trial and certain execution. 

The Underground has a simple mission for him: Plug into the disembodied head of the captured assassin android "Seven," live her memories, discover how she and her team of six others brought about the rise of the Order, and report back. Now all he has to do is stay sane while inside a psychotic android''s mind.

Seven''s mission is anything but straightforward. She and her squad are sent to intercept and eliminate a small gathering of enemy agents. But they''re lured into an electronic dead zone, cut off from the Network, the Order, and their chain of command. Without orders or guidance, they are loosed upon the remote and unsuspecting north shore of Lake Superior to decide for themselves who is friend, who is foe, who to kill, and what purpose they are to serve.

Can Seven survive her own cohorts? Will Chuck survive inside of her? And if they do, what will the Underground do with the knowledge he harvests from inside of her mind?

SEVEN LIVES!

The assassin android Seven, driven insane by years of isolation from the Network and manipulation by her enemies, has infected every computer across North America. And now she''s calculated a way to infect the minds of every neural-implant-equipped human. Her surrogates and drones stalk the streets of 99 Town and Chicago, hunting for the one man who understands her psychosis more than anyone left alive: Chuck Alawode. 

But Chuck and his wife Maggie have found a way to stay hidden, stay alive, and save what they can from the rubble of the apocalypse. That is until a group of teenagers on a quest to kill Seven drag him back into the fight. 

With the last functioning nuclear reaction on the verge of meltdown, the clock is ticking for Chuck and his new allies to mount an attack, find Seven in her most vulnerable hideout, and destroy her permanently.