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Summary: Lock In by John Scalzi is a story set in the future with politics and murder after a virus has changed society. The virus is called Haden’s syndrome. It starts out similarly to the common flu and can leave a victim's body paralyzed over time, and eventually can completely take out all body functions leaving you conscious but unable to function. These people are dependent on electrical transporters and other means to survive in the real world. The government has been funding research and aid for the victims, but due to a bill called Abrams-Kettering, the people with the vivirus will soon have to survive on their own. While this is happening new FBI agent Chris Shane, also a Haden, and his partner Leslie Vann, must solve a murder …show more content…

After having a short dispute with the local police Vann is able to ensure that the case is under FBI jurisdiction as the suspect is known as an Integrator, someone who who is able to take in the mind of a “locked in” Haden so that the Haden may have use of their body. The suspect, Nicholas Bell, was shot with a taser and then arrested prior to Chris and Vann’s arrival on the scene, and then they are able to interrogate him. When Samuel Schwartz, Bells’s lawyer, demands Nicholas’ immediate release, he threatens to sue the police department for unlawful …show more content…

During the dinner furious conversations about the Abrams-Kettering Bill arose. In a private phone call to Vann to update her, Chris tells her that his is informed that the victim comes from the Navajo reservation. During the dinner, one of the guest informs everyone that their medical company is destroyed in an explanation by a Haden. At the scene of the explanation, Chris and Vann make a discovery; that an Integrator caused the explanation using a haden chemist card to gain access to the building. While arriving at the haden’s house they find out that he has been murdered along with a confession tape with both the Integrator and the Haden saying that they wanted to destroy the possible cure for Haden’s

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