The Hive Construct

352 pages. ex-library, spine lightly wornSituated deep in the Sahara Desert, New Cairo is a city built on technology ? ?? from the huge, life-giving solar panels that keep it functioning in a radical ly changed, resource-scarce world to the artificial implants that have become th e answer to all and any of mankind's medical problems. But it is also a divided city, dominated by a handful of omnipotent corporate dynasties.And it's when a p owerful new computer virus begins to spread through the poorest districts, shutt ing down the life-giving implants that enable so many to survive, that the city begins to slide into the anarchy of violent class struggle. Hiding out amidst th e ruins and underground resistance is Zala Ulora, a gifted hacker and fugitive f rom justice. She believes she might be able to earn her life back by tracing the virus to its source and destroying it before it destroys the city . . . or the city destroys itself.With its vivid characters, bold ideas and explosive and thr illing action, The Hive is science-fiction at its most exciting, inventive and a ccessible .…