![]() ![]() ![]() Hart has worked with James Patterson before and he has inherited something of Patterson’s breathless knack for narrative and suspense it helps that he is a far better writer. The two develop a friendship, then a romance, but their relationship is always underpinned both by Zinnia’s true motives and by what, exactly, is going on at the company that controls them both. ![]() One of them, Paxton, is a prison guard-turned-would-be-chief-executive forced to take a demeaning job in security, who gradually becomes indoctrinated into the totalitarian environment in which he serves the other main character, Zinnia, is a corporate spy hired to discover the secrets of Cloud’s extraordinary success by a business rival. ![]() Run by the multibillionaire businessman and visionary Gibson Wells, whose imminent death from pancreatic cancer has led him to write a series of blogs that punctuate the narrative, it essentially owns its employees, who are fed, housed, compelled to do tiresome and menial jobs for poor wages and are brainwashed into believing that they are the fortunate ones. In this dystopian America, where resources are scarce and climate change has been pitiless, the only company that is thriving is Cloud. ![]()
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