You want digital immortality? No problem… so long as you have ten mill for the op, ten for a new skin, and another two a year for storage and backup insurance.
It’s twenty-six years since Eric Thorne tried to suppress the invention of a neural implant capable of digitising the human consciousness, and all his worst fears have come true. What used to be the western world is now governed by big business — and the only people thriving are the rich.
But while the polycorporate elite manoeuvre for dead men’s shoes that’ll never become vacant again, others, some intentionally, some just in the wrong place at the wrong time, begin to fight back; and as disgraced corpo-cop, Gabriel Sousa, tries to figure out who released the digital neurovirus that killed a corporate exec, two carefully orchestrated plans to topple corpocracy collide as they unfold.
First among Equals is the much anticipated sequel to Ghost in the Machine, and second book of The Sum of our Parts — a series of stories mapping humanity’s struggle to control its baser desires and instincts as ever developing technology presents life changing possibilities.