Pogue, Aaron. Ghost Targets. #bk. 1

Read by Sonja Field

Janeane Linson is dead, and every detail of her murder has been erased. We abandoned privacy and turned databases into something like gods. They listened to our prayers. They met our needs and blessed us with new riches. They watched over us, protected us, and punished the wicked among us. We almost made a paradise. However, there were those who tried to hide from the databases' all-seeing eye. They used their wealth, power, or intellect to turn themselves into ghosts within the endless archive. For years, these ghosts have used their anonymity to perpetrate atrocious crimes and slip away unscathed. Now someone among them may go further still. Someone wants to bring the system down. The only thing that stands in his way is the FBI's understaffed and overwhelmed Ghost Targets section. The agent on the case is their newest rookie, Special Agent Katie Pratt, and she is in over her head. The first day on the job gives her an unsolvable murder that ultimately leads her to the greatest threat these gods have ever seen. Can one desperate woman prevent the downfall of her entire society?

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