In the vertical metropolis of Aetheria, death is a temporary inconvenience for those who can afford a “Sleeve”—a synthetic body waiting for a consciousness upload. Jaxen Thorne is a “Repo-Man” for the discarded, a private investigator who tracks down stolen bodies and corrupted souls.
When a high-end “Sleeve” is found wandering the slums of the Low-Sector, completely devoid of a consciousness—a “Hollow”—Jaxen is hired to find the missing mind. But the mystery deepens when the body’s biometric signature matches a woman who died twenty years ago. As Jaxen navigates a world of illegal neural-drifting, corporate hit-squads, and sentient viruses, he uncovers the “Hollow Protocol”: a conspiracy to strip the human race of its individuality to create the ultimate programmable workforce. In a city where you can be anyone, Jaxen is the only one left trying to be himself.
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