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EXECUTION CHANNEL

Ken MacLeod

2007288 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007Orbit · 307 pages · ENGISBN 9781841493480
  • 2008Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · ENGISBN 9781466842458
  • 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9781841493497
  • 2012Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9781405519403
  • 2017Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780765351784
  • 2008Tor Books · 288 pagesISBN 9780765320674
  • 2007Tor Books · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780765313324

"It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq War. After 7/7. After the Iran War. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. It's the day when the world changes all the way down to its fundamental assumptions." "In a world just down the road from our own, online bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality lies. And on every cable system, the mysterious Execution Channel broadcasts deaths from around the world, around the clock." "James Travis is a British patriot and a French spy. On the day the Big One hits, Travis and his daughter must strive to make sense of the nuclear bombing of Scotland and the political repercussions of a series of terrorist attacks. With the information war in full swing, the only truth they have is what they're able to see with their own eyes. They know that everything else is - or may be - a lie." "For in this near future - our near future - day-to-day life becomes much like real intelligence work today: a world in which everything has meaning, and nothing has meaning, and the meanings change as lies build on lies, until someone who intends to lie is finally telling the truth."--BOOK JACKET.

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Character focusSingle lead
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