Beetle in the Anthill

Progressor Maxim Kammerer is ordered to hunt down a former colleague, Lev Abalkin, who may be carrying a dormant program planted by the mysterious alien Wanderers inside one of thirteen human children decades earlier. As Kammerer closes in, he's forced to weigh state paranoia against an old friend's right to simply live his life. A tense Noon Universe novel that questions how far security justifies control.