Set 25 years in the future, when a Committee of Medical Experts now rules the land, this interconnected series of stories takes us into the lives of people both living under and helping to protect the new power wrought by an unending state of emergency and a national focus on manufactured medical crises. The book is both funny and frightening, feeding off cracks that have begun to form in the Biostate and following a set of unrelated people who come together to budge the nation in a new direction. The stories span only a few weeks, and bring us from Africa, Chicago, and DC, culminating in an epic battle set in a tiny park just south of Baltimore. As new truths sputter out and the depths of deception are revealed, the characters must fight for their lives and the lives of what they believe in a nation hypnotized into a cloudy submission to the illusion of an unassailable truth. Who will win and lose is the question that encompasses the entire book and shakes the very foundations of a society gone off the rails.