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Blurb: “"Allen Steele is the best hard SF writer to come along in the last decade. In The Jericho Iteration he comes down to a near-future Earth and proves he can handle a darker, scarier setting as well as his delightful planetary adventures.
I couldn't put it down." —John Varley
Allen Steele's award-winning novels of life in space have garnered rave reviews comparing him to the giants of science fiction.
His ability to combine high adventure and matter-of-fact portraits of real people living in strange new environments has made him a favorite with readers as well. Now Allen Steele brings his vivid imagination down to Earth, in a near-future, high-tech thriller of the real world gone mad.
The year is 2013; a devastating earthquake along the New Madrid fault has left the Midwest in ruins. St. Louis is under martial law, and over seventy-five thousand people are still homeless. Gerry Rosen is an investigative reporter trying to put his life together after the disaster. But hes learned of a secret government project, Ruby Fulcrum, that may be the biggest story he's ever uncovered. It doesn't bother Gerry that everyone involved with the project is trying to keep him from finding out more: that comes with the territory But when people around him start to die-killed by a deadly weapon that strikes without warning-Gerry is suddenly on the run, a desperate fugitive in the quake-ravaged ruins of his own city...
Stunning, frightening, and filled with a realism almost too plausible forfiction, Allen Steele's latest creation is a science fiction masterpiece you will not soon forget.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former investigative reporter and freelance journalist, Allen Steele is the author of Orbital Decay Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, and Clarke County, Space, as well as the short-story collection Rude Astro-nauts. He is a recipient of the Locus and Donald A. Wollheim awards, and has been nominated for the John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and two dogs.