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The Departure Audiobook

The Departure Audiobook

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The Departure may be the first book in Neal Asher’s near-future, science fiction Owner series.

The Argus Space Train station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And out of this secure distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. A couple of too many people and too little resources, plus they want twelve billion to perish before Earth can be stabilized. Therefore corruption is definitely rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanized overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already dread the brutal Inspectorate using its discomfort inducers. But to attain its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite television laser weaponry, taking carnage to a fresh level.

This is actually the world Alan Saul wakes to, venturing inside a cage destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn’t know, but he remembers pain and his tormentor’s face. He also has business: Janus, a rogue cleverness inhabiting forbidden equipment in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their program. Once he’s uncovered who he was, and wiped out his interrogator .

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