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Arlo and Drienne are 'mades'―clones of company executives, deemed important enough to be saved should their health fail. Mades work around the clock to pay off the debt incurred by their creation, though most are Reaped―killed and harvested for organs when their corporate counterparts are in medical need.
But when the impossible happens and the too-big-to-fail company that owns them collapses, Arlo and Drienne find themselves purchased by a scientist who has a job for them.
The reward: Debt paid off, freedom from servitude, and enough cash to last a lifetime.
The job: Infiltrate a highly secure corporate reclamation facility in the heart of dead London and steal a data drive.
They're going to need a team.
"Explorations of identity, commodification, and exploitation run throughout the narrative, which toggles between the crew's multiple perspectives as they scheme their way toward victory. This works on every level." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Readers who love a good caper story or a sci-fi mystery will be thrilled with this…fascinating interpretation of a world gone very, very wrong." ―Library Journal (starred review)
"There's never been a caper novel quite like this one" ―Booklist
"A wild ride through a nerve-wrackingly plausible vision of a near-future corporate dystopia. The Heist of Hollow London carves out a space all of its own against a background of cyberpunk tradition. I'll be looking out for more!" ―CE Murphy, author of Urban Shaman
"The Heist of Hollow London is the definitive dystopian Ocean's Eleven. A thrilling, twisty caper with sky-high stakes: a heist not just for money, but for freedom from the worst excesses of hypercapitalism." ―Oliver K. Langmead, author of Calypso
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Eddie Robson is a British comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics, short stories, and for television and theatre, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines.
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