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|title=The Hive Construct

|sort=Hive Construct , The

|publisher=Doubleday

|date=September 2014

|summary=A mysterious virus threatens to destroy a city as a gifted hacker tried her best to disable it. Meanwhile, a growing number of rebels threaten to overthrow the authorities in a bid to escape the city and the threat of infection.

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New Cairo is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appeared, seemingly from nowhere, affecting a large percentage of the population and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs and organs. Until the virus can be contained, no one is allowed to leave the city, a decision that does not go down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that way. Despite the quarantine, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; a gifted hacker called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy the virus in the hope that the resulting gratitude of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is a dangerous place to be, however, as a rising mass of rebels seek to break free from quarantine and the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.

The Hive Construct in an entertaining read, packed with action, excitement and unpredictable plot twists. Maskill is clearly a promising author, bursting with ideas and it will be interesting to see what he comes up with next. Many thanks to the publishers for my review copy. I really enjoyed it.

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