{"product_id":"state-of-containment","title":"State of Containment","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"285\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"285\"\u003eWHEN THE SYSTEM KEEPS WORKING, THE PEOPLE IT WAS BUILT TO PROTECT BECOME EXPENDABLE.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"411\"\u003eAt Birmingham Airport, an unannounced military transport arrives carrying something that should never have been released.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"605\"\u003eMinutes later, doors open. Others seal. Communications disappear. Across Birmingham, a containment protocol takes control of the city’s infrastructure. And people stop behaving like people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"957\"\u003eSystems architect Matthew James recognises the logic behind the collapse. Years earlier, he wrote the Janitor, a failsafe designed to keep critical systems alive when human control was lost. Now the same logic sits at the heart of a city-wide containment network where keeping the system running takes precedence over the people trapped inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"962\" data-end=\"1070\"\u003eCut off inside the quarantine zone, Matthew has five days before the containment order becomes irreversible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1287\"\u003eCarrying an old hardware key that may be the only way to force a reset, he must cross a city being systematically closed around him — while the people caught inside begin moving with a purpose no one understands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1332\"\u003eBecause the system isn't malfunctioning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1387\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1387\"\u003eIt's doing exactly what it was designed to do.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hatchford Vale Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67830115926320,"sku":"9781066626137","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781066626137.jpg?v=1790092654","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/state-of-containment","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}