The empire has fallen, but its ghosts stillhaunt the world...in the wake of dietrich's reign, carla is no longer just survivingon the fringes-she's fighting to dismantle the toxic legacy heleft behind. his weapons weren't only money and violence, butthe cynicism and control that seeped into governments, corporations, and entire populations.armed with stolen ledgers and forbidden truths, carla walks arazor's edge between those who would bury the evidence andthose who would kill to possess it. from covert boardroomdeals to the chilling specter of project nightingale-a retrovirusdesigned for global population control-every revelation pullsher deeper into a war she cannot walk away from.power corruption, and lies is volume 3 of geoffrey james'penetrating cash, flesh, and consequences series, where theline between truth and survival blurs, and one woman'sdefiance may be the only thing standing against a new orderrising from the ashe