Mysterious cutter circles are showing up in the Britain of the future. Thirteen teenagers gather in a circle, then slice the wrist of the person next to them all the way around the circle. The MI5 recruits a neuroscientist to help figure out the circles before they reach epidemic proportions. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Josh Cumberland, finds himself sucked back into his old special forces unit when a civilian job reaches a mysterious end. Are the two events connected?

I feel that this cover really misleads the potential reader. It makes it seem like this will be a book about depression and suicide in a post-apocalyptic world, right? In fact the people committing suicide have been brainwashed by music in an emotiphone to further a political power move. Which has.....nothing to do with real suicide or depression. I was disappointed.

As far as political intrigue books go, it's pretty typical. The main difference is it's set in the future, but the characters are the quickly fleshed-out ones typical in action style books. The action and intrigue aren't impressive, but also aren't bad.

Overall, the book seems to be an average future political intrigue action flick...in written form. I recommend it to fans of that genre, but others will probably be bored.

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