A secretive cult of elites orchestrated an economic catastrophe known as the Great Debt Crisis. What followed was war, starvation, and the destruction of civilization as we know it. In the ruin, they formed their long-imagined utopia: a one-world, "Unified" global government-ruled by them. In this world, acts of subversion are the highest of crimes and to police it, a superintelligence A.I. named HON monitors the private thoughts of all civilians.James Duke and his wife Amy are members of an underground revolutionary force who oppose the invasive technocratic rule of the Unified Global Government. Their subversive war takes a bewildering turn when a plague sweeps across the Unified Globe, turning all infected into giggling, undead, cannibals.
