Culpa Innata

B. Barmanbek's Culpa Innata is a futuristic thriller set to intrigue intellectual, science fiction and adventure readers equally, with its perfect yet not-so-perfect "new world", its indelible heroine and its off-balancing twists and turns. It is also the original story behind the adventure game ‘classic' of the same name and the first of a trilogy.

Around the middle of 21st century, the world has been divided in half. Ever since the Great Meltdown, the most devastating depression humanity has ever seen, the world has united into one people, one goal, one mighty global country: the World Union. Beyond that, lie the backward Rogue States. Here in the Union, there are no capital crimes, no poverty, no pollution and disease has almost been eradicated. The World Union has ushered in an unprecedented era of self-interest and fulfillment. Prosperity is a science, self-interest is a new religion, sex is entertainment, peace is at hand, and the future has never looked brighter. Or does this "perfect world" hide darker secrets?

Senior Peace and Security Agent Phoenix Wallis, is assigned a high-profile murder just one week on her new position and she enters an investigation that compels her to question everything she's ever believed. While she may not realize, Phoenix possesses the key to the single biggest threat to the Union.