Austin, Texas. October 2030. A city of 2.4 million people and 43 million connected devices. Twelve thousand sensors. Four thousand cameras. A WiFi mesh that knows your body by its shadow. NexGrid, a private technology company, operates America's most comprehensive urban surveillance platform - and stores its most sensitive data on the moon, beyond the jurisdiction of any court on Earth. Twelve characters whose lives collide inside the system: an engineer who discovers his optimization killed a man. A journalist carrying an eight-year-old fabrication who uncovers the truth anyway. An intelligence analyst committing federal crimes to protect the niece she raised. A realtor whose affair is mapped by the same telematics that discount his insurance. A mother whose marriage ends in a credit card statement the refrigerator displayed. A seventeen-year-old girl who knocks on her brother's door and saves his life. A boy who stopped drawing. The surveillance state wasn't built by villains. It was built by engineers, executives, consumers, and investors who clicked "I Agree" without reading the terms. One click at a time. Every technology in this book exists or is in active development. From the author of Only a Fool's Gold and Complicit.