Nation states have been replaced by gov-corps or government corporations. Newman fashions a truly dystopic future where people are 'chipped' to provide for ultimate surveillance.
All the while, there has been global excitement over a 40 year message from the original pathfinder about to be revealed. This leads to further revelations that eventually result in a reprise of the original Atlas program with the detective escaping while Earth implodes at the end. Before he can follow up, the detective's contract is bought out by an unscrupulous tycoon intent on retrieving his spouse who has escaped. The investigation has several twists and turns, including a suicide that politically is preferred to be left as a murder. The detective was also a former cult member as a child. The main character is an indentured detective who is selected to investigate the murder of the cult leader who took over after the original Atlas left. There's more to Casales' death than meets the eye - and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes.Īfter Atlas, Emma Newman's 2nd installment in the Planetfall series, occurs forty years after Planetfall, but back on Earth.
But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history.
And now, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Atlas' departure, it has something to do with why Casales was found dead in his hotel room - and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. Atlas is what took his mother away what made his father lose hope what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. But in that moment, the course of Carlos' entire life changed.
Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems.
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