RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION September 3, 2040
Memorial Hospital Trauma Center, Surgical Critical Care Unit—Fifth Floor:
Damon Leiter looked down over his broken body and understood that the course of his life had become defined by two things:
The computer implants in his head had undergone a hard reset.
And he was going to have to rely on his organic brain to figure out who’d tried to kill him.
The implants were still functioning—he could feel them—unless it was an illusion, like phantom limbs after an amputation. Data from the past forty-eight hours should have flowed back into his conscious awareness a few minutes after such a reset. That’s what he’d been told—but it had never happened before, should never have happened. He checked for the presence of long-stored data, like a tongue
