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Crack in the Kill Code (AmpCore #2)

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Reads 3,542
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Parts 27
Time 5h 33m

words_are_weapons

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While Hadrian's corporations squabble amongst themselves, something is stirring in the ruins of Hadrian South. Former streetkid Piper Russell soon finds herself facing a new enemy that has only one goal: to destroy the world she knows, and everyone in it.

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|| SOMETIMES THE PAST DOESN'T DIE ||

North of the river, Hadrian is a city reeling from a fallout between its competing tech corporations.  With the tech-corps at each other's throats and rebellion beginning to fester among Hadrian's citizens, the city is reaching boiling point.

Caught in the middle of a vicious, shadow-conflict, Piper finds her loyalties tested from all sides. Filled with living metal implants, owned by no corporation, and wanted by all of them, she has to tread the finest of lines to stay alive, all while trying to unravel the mystery of her origins. 

But while the corporations squabble, in the ruins of Hadrian South something is stirring, something much worse than any rebellion. The past has come back to haunt this city. 

And it has come back to take revenge.

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