{"product_id":"firebreak-kornher-stace-nicole","title":"Firebreak [Kornher-Stace, Nicole]","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter's stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while I've been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but I'm down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Liberty City, 2134.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSecOps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 game's rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal--looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSecOps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor Kornher-Stace's adult science fiction debut-- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirebreak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-- is loaded with ambitious challenges and a city to save.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39250131517616,"sku":"9781982142742b","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2341\/9361\/products\/9781982142742_14464.jpg?v=1614193465","url":"https:\/\/pandemoniumbooks.com\/products\/firebreak-kornher-stace-nicole","provider":"Pandemonium Books and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}