
Marion Wheeler runs a secret department that contains ideas which erase themselves from memory, and fights an enemy no one can remember with notes to herself and drugs that let her see what she has forgotten.
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Logan Ramsay, an agent of the Gene Protection Agency in a near future scarred by a genetic-engineering disaster, is exposed during a raid to a virus that starts rewriting his genome and making him smarter than anyone has been.

Carolyn and the other adopted children of a godlike figure called Father have each spent years mastering one catalogue of his library, and when he goes missing, the contest to replace him turns lethal.

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