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Agenda

Name: Agenda
Author: Eric Gill
ISBN: 9780615396477

by Eric Gill

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The Constitution is in jeopardy. Culture wars divide the United States and disgruntled factions begin to stir. Jobs are scarce and socialism is on the rise. Hiring mandates force employers into submission. Nationalized healthcare threatens individual choice, and privacy is under siege. On the outskirts of Washington D.C., Cylix CEO Jabez Masterson plots a scheme from the top floor of his northern Virginia headquarters. Masterson's target: American workers. His weapon: the Behavior and Aptitude Predictor Tool, a sophisticated algorithm that weeds out workers incapable of surrendering their freedoms to the State. The Sacred Order of Universal Laws has other plans. The underground sect is on a mission to save the republic. The counter-intelligence group must recruit a Listener to infiltrate Cylix. Enter Stuart Kestrel, a mid-level manager torn between his stock certificates and his conscience. When a colleague is brutally attacked, Kestrel is asked to join the Order and help decipher Masterson's manifesto before Cylix convinces lawmakers to amend the nation's Civil Rights Act. Can liberty be saved?

About the Author, Eric Gill

Eric Gill Biography
Eric Gill (shown with his wife) is a journalism graduate of San Jose State University. He has served senior and executive editor positions for monthly trade and consumer magazines, worked for a public policy foundation in Los Angeles, a successful dotcom in Seattle, and a Washington D.C.-based behavioral science institute.
Gill grew up in a typical middle-class suburb along the lower San Francisco peninsula. The youngest son of a SATCOM engineering specialist, Gill absorbed the rapid-fire changes that transformed Santa Clara Valley into the high-tech capital of the world. His father, who worked on missile defense satellite-tracking systems, traveled much of the time to strange places like Godthab, Greenland; Kodiak, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska; and Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. While the secretive father was contributing to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the son was playing Little League baseball and acting in school plays -- or writing them.
After graduating from college, Gill moved to L.A. and went to work for a notary trade publication. "It sounds dull, but I wrote a lot about real estate embezzlement, elections fraud and probate scams. I learned that wherever there's a fraud, there's a stolen ID and a forged signature. Computers are the same way. There's always a fingerprint."
In 2005, Gill transferred to the Beltway. "My experiences in Virginia, Northern California and Seattle shaped my ideas and transformed my thinking. I wrote my first novel to get people to think about how technology affects their personal privacy and impacts our civil liberties."