![]() The book is a page-turner, plot-driven in the extreme, and at times terribly entertaining. ![]() Along with the roller-coaster plot, Abrams introduces elements of geopolitical what-ifs: What if a Supreme Court justice was rendered unable to serve and unable to resign, a situation not currently provided for under the Constitution? What if the same company now promising to cure illness at the genetic level once experimented with waging war using similar chromosomal manipulations? What if those experiments seemed a terrible precursor to genocide? What if the entire bureaucratic machinery of the US government were vulnerable to all manner of sabotage and trickery? What’s a good American to do when, as Abrams imagines at one point, a branch of Homeland Security has developed “the type of technology that would have made Bond’s Q envious and a bit intrigued”? And finally, how must we balance our duties to the abstractions of national values and to the needs of our loved ones? ![]()
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