Low sulfur, fine grade, nanoprinted in the basement, rigged to fire a tranquilizer dart and bring me down a bird without killing it. The shot echoes off the mountains, and the scent of gunpowder fills the air. “Come on, little birdy,” I breathe, squeezing the trigger. Without magnification, the flock is just a blur of stippled color, but through the scope, with my ocular tech sharpening my vision, the colors resolve into the wings and chests of individual birds.
I lean out over the cabin’s porch railing, my hips pressed into the wood, squinting through the scope of my father’s rifle. Through years of work, they crafted the pigeons to be stronger than their ancestors. Color-shifting feathers to signal danger to the flock with a single muscle twitch. Their strange cries sound like pebbles tossed against a window, and they move in perfect unison, blocking out the sun.Īmateur coders in Nevada rebuilt the long-extinct pigeon’s DNA, then spliced it into something new and bold.
They soar across the sky like a live impressionist painting in brilliant swirling arcs of tangerine and gold. IT’S SUNSET, AND THE SKY is aflame, not with clouds or dust, but with the iridescent feathers of a million genehacked passenger pigeons. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself? Excerpt But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own.
Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want.
She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.Ĭatarina Agatta is a hacker.
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