Cumulus

Cumulus

Eliot Peper

Language: English

Pages: 214

ISBN: 1532707193

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


In the not-so-distant future, economic inequality and persistent surveillance push Oakland to the brink of civil war.

Lilly Miyamoto is a passionate analog photographer striving to pursue an ever more distant dream. Huian Li is preeminent among the Silicon Valley elite as the founder and CEO of the pervasive tech giant Cumulus. Graham Chandler is a frustrated intelligence agent forging a new path through the halls of techno-utopian royalty. But when Huian rescues Lilly from a run-in with private security forces, it sets off a chain of events that will change their lives and the world.

The adventure accelerates into a mad dash of political intrigue, relentless ambition, and questionable salvation. Will they survive to find themselves and mend a broken system?

Pivot Point

Roar and Liv (Under the Never Sky, Book 0.5)

The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book 2)

Outpost (Enclave, Book 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Normal. It’s what people do.” “If this is normal, then I’m not interested in normal.” The skin around Vera’s eyes puckered up. “You’re brilliant, Huian. And I love you dearly. Nothing has changed about that. But you’re so… tangled up in your own head that you don’t see what’s happened to us. We’re a mess, my love. We’re a hot mess. And I’m tired of cleaning it all up.” Huian tasted copper and realized she was biting her cheek. Sure, they disagreed on things occasionally. Heated debates.

A tasteful confection of granite and stainless steel, with a layout that would have impressed the original creator of Tetris. She could sell shots of it to house-porn and interior design sites for full-screen spreads. The sharp smells of ginger and mint wafted through the air. The woman was at the counter facing the window. She was grinding something. The muscles on her thin shoulders and the outline of a green sports bra were visible through the wet T-shirt. Her hair was pulled back in a.

A tasteful confection of granite and stainless steel, with a layout that would have impressed the original creator of Tetris. She could sell shots of it to house-porn and interior design sites for full-screen spreads. The sharp smells of ginger and mint wafted through the air. The woman was at the counter facing the window. She was grinding something. The muscles on her thin shoulders and the outline of a green sports bra were visible through the wet T-shirt. Her hair was pulled back in a.

Nuisance suit that threatened to break up Cumulus. Of course, he had anonymously leaked her the key information about Cumulus that made her case a viable threat. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a need to eliminate her, and he would have remained outside Huian’s circle of trust. Powerful people were the easiest to manipulate because they had the most to lose. Sara’s smile had disappeared when he put one bullet through her right eye and another through her heart. Oh, the rush. He patted his.

Double agent. A curious photographer. He snorted and Karl twitched. Without any counterintelligence training, Lilly had broken his cover wide open despite his years of covert operations and impossibly high digital defenses. Hubris made power a self-limiting function. The trap he had built wasn’t for Huian. It was for himself. The barefoot boy with the binoculars rose from the ashes of memory. Graham raised the gun and pulled the trigger. 38 THE SHOT RANG through the desolate expanse.

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