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Whoever the lambdas might be and wherever they really come from theyre already here among us

Outwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea the lambdas are genetically human The government has noticed them So has a whole gamut of extremist groups Cara Gray has noticed them too first as a haunting presence in her otherwise ordinary childhood then as the impossibly shifting target of her work as a police officer

When a bomb goes off at a school Cara finds herself the weak point in a surveillance regime that has failed to prevent the worst terrorist atrocity in decades A nebulous group of lambda extremists claims responsibility for the attackbut how could a vulnerable community of tiny aquatic humans barely visible in society and seemingly indifferent to their own exploitation be capable of such a horrific act

In Caras world a family member can be replaced with an app a police quantum computer has the power to decide who dies and objects are legally alive As her relationship with the lambdas deepens Cara must decide whether to submit to the patterns of technology violence and obsession or to take action of her own