Couriers are essential for moving confidential information from one place to another.Kris is required to work past her normal quitting time to transport a package message and walks in on a murder in progress at the drop-off destination. The power of corporations has eclipsed that of the government and sophisticated computer systems now reveal the contents of electronic messages to competitors within minutes. The earth’s enormous population lives in enormous cities like San Angeles, a seven-level city stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. The story takes place in the United States in 2140. It focuses on the exploits of Kris Ballard, a courier whose job is to transport corporate messages to the designated recipient. The Courier is the initial entry in a science fiction series titled The San Angeles Novels. Together Kris and Miller barely manage to stay one step ahead of the corporate killers, but it's only a matter of time until Miller's resources and their luck run out. Fleeing from people that seem to know her every move, she is rescued by Miller-a member of an underground resistance group-only to be pulled deeper into a world she doesn't understand. Hunted, scared, and alone, she retreats to the only place she knows she can hide: the Level 1 streets. It looks like the corporations want Kris gone, and are willing to go to almost any length to make it happen.
Now she's stuck with a mysterious package that everyone wants.
A runaway since the age of fourteen, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone's help.īut a late day delivery changes everything when she walks in on the murder of one of her clients.
Level 2 trash in a multi-level city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border-a land where corporations make all the rules. The first installment in the San Angeles trilogy, a thrilling near-future cyberpunk sci-fi series
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