num_pages: 328
description: Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies.Here in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a machine - he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow Lily who has arrived to claim her husband's remains.But when South sees that she the first machine ever allowed into the country bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife he's thrown into a maelstrom of betrayal murder and conspiracy that may bring down the Republic for good.WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS illuminates authoritarianism complicity and identity in the digital age in a page turning darkly-funny frightening and touching story that recalls Philip K. Dick John le Carr and Kurt Vonnegut in equal measure.
language: English
title: When the Sparrow Falls
publisher: Tor Books