Endo, Hiroki

Propater's military forces seek to possess our planet and maintain possession of one body in suspended animation--an empty shell whose consciousness has been downloaded into Sophia's sophisticated cyborg system. Sophia cast her body aside years ago. Will she risk what's left of her brain and essential self for a chance to reunite a stranger's body with his mind?.

Fifteen-year-old Elijah, in the company of a group of freedom fighters, attempts to cross the Andes Mountains, while pursued by troops of the paramilitary force known as the Propater which is trying to take control of the world in the wake of a devastating pandemic.

As the Closure virus begins to mutate, Sophie and Kenji continue to fight Propator forces and protect a Chinese political leader.

"With new, cyber-augmented Propater villains- the Aeon soldiers - making a vicious debut, the mysterious Colonel Khan tries to keep his ragtag group of freedom fighters alive. Kenji cuts a path through armored soldiers, Cherubim and Sophia suffer serious setbacks, and Kachua guides Wycliffe through secret Incan tunnels, not knowing what horrors are in store for them in the daylight."--Back cover.

By 2112, the Closure Virus has already wiped out about one-third of the world's population, but it mutates again to infect not only people and living creatures-but inorganic matter as well. This new threat overruns several major cities, creating huge crystalline shapes with the matter it absorbs.

A brutal virus has destroyed most of the human population leaving the paramilitary Propater forces in charge to pursue world domination.

Elijah and Cherubim cross paths with a group of supposed freedom fighters led by an inscrutable man named Colonel Khan. Cherubim is appropriated and reprogrammed, pulling Elijah even deeper into a world of relentless peril.

With the world reeling from the after effects of a brutal, widespread virus, civilization is torn between the laws and ways of the old world and a new order where cybernetic implants are commonplace and might means right. Elijah and his comrades-in-arms attempt to cross the Andes Mountains, with Propater's gruesome Aeon soldiers and armored troops hot on their heels.

Elijah seeks help from the Automater, a cyborg crime boss, in his pursuit of Pedro, a sadistic criminal.