Every need has been ported over to Cloud, a worldwide fulfillment facility where anyone who wants to survive works-those who don't either give in eventually or are a customer-in something of a feudal society where algorithms decide your role. In the near future, following a series of mass murders at retail outlets, traditional commerce is dead. Hart ( Take Out, 2019, etc.) is best known for his private eye novels about Ash McKenna and a novella co-written with James Patterson ( Scott Free, 2017), but he’s tapped a real vein of the zeitgeist with this stand-alone thriller about the future of work that reads like a combination of Dave Eggers’ tech nightmare, The Circle (2013), the public’s basic impression of an Amazon fulfillment center, and Parzival’s infiltration of IOI in Ready Player One (2011). When does the line between utopia and dystopia begin to merge? When you owe your soul to the company store.
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