by William Campbell
Carl Brown is plagued by a recurring nightmare: Trapped inside a plummeting craft filled with flames, he and a beautiful blue-eyed woman are about to die. Tonight he wakes to a dismal reality--he's been sleeping under a bridge. Stricken with amnesia, he is a man without a past who regards himself as insignificant. But he is not the loser he imagines, as he learns when agents in black come to collect him. He is brought before a secret jury that sentences him to burn alive, after which his remains will be frozen in a block of ice. Before he burns, a seductive woman--not the beauty from his dreams--comes to his rescue, and Carl lusts to know her better. She tells him that he is not Carl--he is Adam, and his memory loss was no accident. He has lived and died many times, and their enemy, the Association, employs a process known as dead forever, in which all memory of past lives is wiped out. Once conditioned, rebels are burned, packed in ice, and sent away, never to be seen again. The question is--sent away to where?
Adam returns home and learns more about his erased life: he is an Alternative Combat Engineer and has battled his conformist enemy for lifetimes. But more disturbing, a close friend has joined the enemy, and the love of Adam's many lives--the blue-eyed woman who haunts his nightmares--is on her way to become dead forever. As Adam pieces together his fractured memory, he recalls the mission that led to his capture--discovering where the ice goes, and setting out to rescue countless fellow rebels.
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