{"product_id":"9781429982214","title":"Maelstrom","description":"Test2-MacmillanNonDRM-\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond in the Rifters Trilogy, Hugo Award-winning author Peter Watts' \u003ci\u003eMaelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the way the world ends:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnless, of course, you miss the target.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow North America's west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer name is Lenie Clarke. She's a rifter. She's not nearly as dead as everyone thinks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she's concerned. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164566700272,"sku":"9781429982214","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429982214_p0.jpg?v=1763749225","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429982214","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}