The Lambton Worm

Something is evolving in the Meritocracy's computers that can't be contained, something that could spell the end of an unstable international peace.

Jananin Blake calls science's finest minds to Torrmede in Northeast England, in search of a solution to a computer virus capable of adapting as fast as it can be confronted. But the one person best qualified to combat the emerging threat is dead, assassinated in a conflict over his discoveries.

Disillusioned with the new order and struggling agai...