from the back: "In the twenty-fourth century, nano=designed biology has turned the world into humanity's playground. Entrepreneur Lucius Sterling has created a trillion-dollar empire by solving the world's problems: poverty, disease, war--even death. The handful of people wealthy enough can pay for conversion to Deathless, a controversial process that transforms a person into nanobiology, cell by cell, granting them eternal beauty and health.

All these wonders unravel when a new technology attacks the fundamental building blocks of nanobiology. No one knows the source of the destruction or where it will hit next. As nanobiology cities crumble, the Deathless retreat into tightly guarded compounds. Once invulnerable, this new technology now endangers their very existence. Rumors fly that its creator may even be one of their own. The world hovers on the brink of war. And the only persoln who can investigate is Jack Sterling, Lucius's estranged great-grandson, exiled from modern life by a deadly allergy to the very nanobiology that made his family's fortune..."

I enjoyed this book, but had a few spots where it wasn't incredible. The author gets a little too fond of certain phrases, and I was really sick of them being used so frequently. Also, there are a few things that are reasonably predictable, but they weren't major plot pieces. The character development and so on gets better as the book goes along, and there were some major plots points that I honestly was surprised by. By the end I had added it to my list to look for the sequel when it comes out.

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