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May 11, 2017JenRaw rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Read the whole review at http://bit.ly/2q5z72p Company Town takes place in the unique setting of an oil rig the size of a city off the coast of Newfoundland. After the original rig is consumed by flames, New Arcadia is established, built by the powerful Lynch family who plaster their logo on every tall building. When we meet our protagonist, Go Jung-hwa, she is working as a bodyguard for the United Sex Workers of Canada and teaching self-defense classes on the side. Subject to a disease that makes her prone to seizures and marks half of her body with a birthmark, Hwa is an outcast in a society filled with augmented human beings. Where others have cameras built into their eyes, implants in their brains, and vaccines for countless diseases, Hwa is completely organic. It is because of her organic status that Hwa is conscripted by Zachariah Lynch, the patriarch of Lynch Ltd. to act as personal bodyguard for his teenage heir, Joel. She is unable to be hacked, controlled, or cheated. What was once a symbol of her status as poor has become her greatest asset.