In a near future Tokyo, every action--from blinking to sexual
intercourse--is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge
licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen
records their movements from moment to moment, and connects them to the
audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet, so that every inch of this
cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting
cinematic promotainment.
Amon Kenzaki works as a Liquidator for the Global Action Transaction
Authority. His job is to capture bankrupt citizens, remove their
BodyBank, and banish them to BankDeath Camps where they are forever cut
off from the action-transaction economy. Amon always plays by the rules
and is steadily climbing the Liquidation Ministry ladder.
With his savings accumulating and another promotion coming, everything
seems to be going well, until he is asked to cash crash a charismatic
politician and model citizen, and soon after is charged for an
incredibly expensive action called "jubilee" that he is sure he never
performed. To restore balance to his account, Amon must unravel the
secret of jubilee, but quickly finds himself asking dangerous questions
about the system to which he's devoted his life, and the costly
investigation only drags him closer and closer to the pit of bankruptcy.
In book one of the Jubilee Cycle, Cash Crash Jubilee, debut novelist
Eli K. P. William wields the incisive power of speculative fiction to
show how, in a world of corporate finance run amok, one man will do
everything for the sake of truth and justice.
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