It’s nothing you could have expected.ĭiscussion: For some reason it didn’t quite click in my brain that this would be a murder mystery story, and not have anything to do with the contagious virus that leaves people “locked in” - or at least, not completely.
The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture.
The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.īut “complicated” doesn’t begin to describe it. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an “integrator” - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time.
The world changes to meet the challenge.Ī quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what’s now known as “Haden’s syndrome,” rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes “Lock In”: Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. I figured, being in quarantine and all, what better time was there to read a book about being locked in? So here we are, book four of twenty. Granted, it might take me a while to get to it, but that’s another story. I’ve had Lock In for a few years because everything I’ve read by John Scalzi so far is a delight, so I wasn’t going to turn down something of his. So because of all this hoarding, I made my 2020 resolution to read most of the speculative books that I own. Welcome to another post involving Books Nicole Owns But Hasn’t Read Because She, Like Many, Is Actually A Book Dragon.
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