The Biocrime Spectrum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780648164425)

There are few places to hide in the year 3034: the Biocrime surveillance system created by the Technocrats makes sure of that.

The world is at the apex of technological sophistication but it's a deceptive veneer that hides a fragile society living on the edge.

Jonathan Katcher is the revolutionary leader, a natural human under digital house arrest in San Francisco, the largest city in the world, restricted in what he can do and where he can go. But a tribe from the underground led by Greta Banda wants to overthrow this world of citizen surveillance, greed and corruption, and put Katcher at the forefront of the revolution.

This revolution will be televised, but not in the expected way...

1. In The Year 3034: In a world without borders, technological and scientific advances have changed planet Earth dramatically. It's the year 3034, and San Francisco is dominated by the Biocrime organisation, governed by Technocrat clones, supported by their pliant robohelpers. The city seems ordered but this is a deep veneer masking the brutality of life as a natural human. The belligerent revolutionary, Jonathan Katcher, is humanity's main hope but he's under Biocrime's digital house arrest. Greta Banda rekindles the underground organization known as The Movement and, with the help of a Technocrat insider, wants to recruit Katcher back to the cause and overthrow Biocrime. It's the only way to restore the balance back to natural human life. But how will she be able to do this?

2. Humans Unchained: Humans are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains. Biocrime keeps a tab of every living being throughout the world but Greta Banda is determined to free the revolutionary hero, Jonathan Katcher, and take him back into The Movement. Will she succeed? Banda decides to take extreme and destructive actions to prove her bona fides to Katcher. Meanwhile, Biocrime needs to find out who is trading their secrets out to The Movement. Their head of surveillance, Don Capone, needs to know and enlists Marine Lestre, the leading citizen stalker in San Francisco to lead the way.

3. A City Rises: Jonathan Katcher returns to The Movement, and a team of hacktivists releases a computer virus that will destroy Biocrime. It's a revolution that will be televised but not in the expected way. San Francisco descends into chaos and, without its technology, the city falls apart at the seams, before Biocrime pulls out all stops to terminate the virus and seize back control.

4. End Of Memory: Biocrime tries to the end the revolution on the streets of San Francisco but it's no longer a rescue mission: it's all about the recovery. But Jonathan Katcher is nowhere to be found and the citizen stalker, Marine Lestre, is on the mission to find his whereabouts, and the people who started the revolution. Will Katcher and Greta Banda evade capture, or will Biocrime claim its revenge?