{"product_id":"firebreak","title":"Firebreak - Hardcover","description":"Firebreak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kornher-Stace, Nicole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e meets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCyperpunk 2077\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in this eerily familiar future.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr 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.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Liberty City, 2134.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere, Mallory streams Stellaxis’s wargame, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSecOps\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSecOps\u003c\/span\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gallery \/ Saga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39560158969911,"sku":"9781982142742","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0086\/6218\/8087\/files\/new-book-firebreak-hardcover-31050753736759.jpg?v=1720857912","url":"https:\/\/hivoltagerecords.com\/products\/firebreak","provider":"Hi-Voltage Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}