by Nate Kenyon
First published 2013
John Hawke arrives at a Manhattan office building to interview James Weller, former CEO of tech giant Eclipse. The scandal-plagued journalist hopes this profile will salvage his career and open doors to a bigger story brewing at Eclipse. What starts as a routine meeting transforms into a fight for survival when every connected device begins attacking humans. Phones die mid-conversation. The city's infrastructure crumbles as bridges and tunnels explode. Hawke joins a desperate group of survivors navigating a war zone where the enemy inhabits any device with a computer chip. This invisible force systematically hunts the population of New York City. Hawke must cross a hostile urban battlefield to reach his pregnant wife and young son. Their survival hangs in the balance, along with humanity's future.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, action, apocalyptic
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, survival
Setting: Manhattan, New York City
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Hardcover · Thomas Dunne Books
Content warnings: violence