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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.