Thomas Hill

Chip's World Thomas Hill

Chip's World: Complex #31 and the Caretaker is a wild, crazy sci-fi romp through a sinister future world of ever-changing technology and constant deadly threats. Dean Haggerty, a clever computer programmer, is sent to live as a caretaker of a huge complex on the desolate northern frontier because the Central Authority believes he knows too much about the conspiracy. Little does Dean know the dangerous threats that wait for him in "zero pop" on the northern frontier. Dean is considered expendable and the agents of the High Council will do anything to have him killed. Dean must learn new things to fight and survive. Meanwhile, a master computer chip called "Chip" that is connected to all devices on the network in the New Nation sits inside a hidden server room and monitors all electronic activity. Does the artificial intelligence of "Chip" call the shots by sending messages to members of the High Council? Chip decides that Dean and the outlawed sprinters, a mysterious group of former soldiers, must be eliminated by agents of the High Council. Soon, Dean discovers damning evidence that ties the High Council to a conspiracy to install control chips in unsuspecting people. Unscrupulous people hold positions of power and they learn that Dean has hacked their computer system and uncovered their most classified secrets. They decide that sending him away is not enough. Their agents have his wife and son taken hostage and used as bait to draw Dean in. Dean must surrender the damning evidence against the High Council or face the consequences. In Chip's World there are unending threats and terrible fighting as a disenfranchised Dean Haggerty and a band of super-speed sprinters faces off against a High Council that wants them all destroyed. Will they survive the threat or perish at the hands of the Central Authority's agents?