Tipping Point Trilogy Book 1
Read by David Colacci

Alan Dean Foster's brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has
all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition
to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers
expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals
are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation - which
poses profound questions about what it means to be human.

Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to
preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy
Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic
legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping
abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take
to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated
artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual
silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to
scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well.

Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom.
Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious
thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All
Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to
split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes
an astonishing discovery.

So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no
genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while
Whispr's smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make
a formidable team - as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are
tracking them.

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