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The near future is a dangerous place. Keeping the world steady and peaceful when fighting corporate hobbies and nation-states challenge for power, riches, and prestige has only got harder over the years. But that's the United Nations' job. Therefore the UN has changed combined with the rest of the world. When the UN's "soft" diplomacy fails, they have harder options. Quiet, scalpel-like options: The Deceased - biologically enhanced magic formula operatives created by the UN to resolve the problems no-one else can. Anwar Abbas is one of The Dead. When the Controller-General of the UN asks him to execute a simple bodyguard quest, he's insulted and resentful: Mere bodyguard work is a waste material of his unique ability. But he needs the work, because to refuse it might be unthinkable. Anwar is asked to protect Olivia del Sarto, the number associated with an important approaching UN meeting. Olivia is mind of the world's fastest-growing cathedral, but in her rise to power she's made opponents: shadowy opponents with apparently endless resources. Anwar is one of the deadliest people on the planet, but her opponents have something which kills people like him. And they've dispatched it on her behalf. It's out there, unstoppable and untraceable, getting better as the meeting methods. As he and Olivia ignite a torrid affair, Anwar must reveal the conspiracy that threatens to kill her, the UN, and even The Deceased.
