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NK3

By: Michael Tolkin
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a 60-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the Fence, ruled over by the new aristocracy, the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to control the mindless and nameless Drifters, Shamblers, and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed.

The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. They warn him of trouble to come, but who is the person to watch? Is it the elusive Eckmann, holed up with the last functioning plane at LAX; Shannon Squier, the chisel-wielding pop superstar from the pre-NK3 world, pulled from the shambling masses; a treacherous member of Chief's inner circle; or Hopper, the uncommon Drifter compelled by an inner voice to search for a wife whose name and face he doesn't know? Each threatens to upset the delicate power balance in this fragile world.

In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets, and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk.

©2017 Michael Tolkin (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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I read this book twice to see if I could get something out of it and it was painful to read through. I personally did not like it at all even after giving it a second chance. I hope that your experience was better than mine.

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Truly a grade A stink-a-reno!

While the narration was brilliant, it was wasted on, what I believe to be, the dumbest story ever told. I listened the whole time hoping for some sort of rational storyline to emerge. The writing reminds one of a composition from a 5 year-old told to work in lots of trademark references. Wish I had my money and time back...

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