Topeka — Steven Lisberger

America's heartland has become the center of the global hi-tech industry. Topeka Systems can download minds. Elites have been using this software illegally to remain forever young. Nora Osborne, CEO of Topeka Systems, becomes a whistle blower. When the powers that be find out she is out to betray them they are determined to kill her. Nora, with the aid of a combat surgeon named Bode, has no choice but to assume a new identity by downloading her mind into another body. Bode has taken an oath to keep her alive. Nora and Bode take on the government's Data Force and the military's Joint Cloud Command. In the process they learn many of America's leaders are not who they pretend to be. And neither are they.245 pages