A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the bestselling, Hugo Award-winning John ScalziNot too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percentand nearly five million souls in the United States alonethe disease causes Lock In Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by whats now known as Hadens syndrome, rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an integratorsomeone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time.
