Scorpion

Scorpion (2021), published by Random House, is Cantrell's first book published in hardcover. CIA analyst Quinn Mitchell, still processing the death of her daughter, is assigned to a series of murders that follow an encoded numeric pattern across multiple countries. The investigation leads to the Epoch Index, a cryptic message embedded in data from the Large Hadron Collider, whose origin and function neither Quinn nor the agency can explain. The novel's dystopian dimension is atmospheric rather than structural, a near-future surveillance state presented as an unremarkable background condition rather than an explicit subject of critique. More techno-thriller than dystopia proper, it rounds out the collection as a companion to the Children of Occam books and Kingmaker. 

Inscribed copy. Signed and inscribed by Cantrell on the half-title page.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, boards. New York: Random House, 2021. ISBN: 9781984801975. #10822.
Fine in fine dust jacket.