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Her DNA grants her the ultimate power.
But all she wants is to disappear.
Looming buildings rise into the sky of a near-future America, shadowing the desperate poverty of the soovie parks, death doctors, and fear bombs. In this world of walled cities, where status matters most, Caitlyn Brown is desperate to remain invisible, wrongly believing what she needs to hide is the deformity on her back. The powerful want her for so much more.
She’s forced to take flight again, relying on the help of Razor, a street-smart illusionist she can’t trust. Her only hope is to reach friends already tracked by government.
With a twisted bounty hunter in full pursuit, she and Razor begin to learn the unthinkable about her past and the unique gifts of her DNA. It leads Caitlyn to a choice between the two men who love her, and whether to keep her freedom or sacrifice herself to change human destiny.
In this lightning-fast chase through an all-too-plausible future, best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer is at his best. Flight of Shadows is a terrifying ride into the heart of compelling moral questions about science and society.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307735607
- File size: 323649 KB
- Duration: 11:14:16
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- English
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Reviews
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Kirsten Potter's quiet, intense narration continues the futuristic dystopian story that began in BROKEN ANGEL with Caitlyn Brown's escape from Appalachia. Now, teaming up with a streetwise con artist, Caitlyn is on the run from government agents, bounty hunters, and her own future. Even with frequent scene and point-of-view changes, Potter effortlessly differentiates the various characters through her use of accents and timing. As the reason for Caitlyn's deformity and the value of her DNA are revealed, the story introduces questions of science and morality. Potter builds the suspense through her tense reading, conveying the dark mood that pervades this post-apocalyptic world, in which society is divided into strata of Illegals, Industrials, Invisibles, and Influentials--and the government holds all the power. E.N. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine -
March 29, 2010
Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (Broken Angel
) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called “soovies,” the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What's darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.
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