The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a future America where the old United States has been driven offshore, order has not vanished so much as changed hands. On the East Coast, the Syndic runs like a vast protection league: pay your dues, keep your receipts, and life can be startlingly freewheeling. West of the Mississippi, a rival power known as the Mob preaches iron morality and enforces it with fear. Caught between them is Charles Orsino, a young, low-ranking Syndic collector in New York who expects his career to consist of routine shake-downs and staying out of trouble. Then an assassination attempt makes him a problem, and an opportunity. Summoned by the Syndic's top brass, Orsino is asked to do the unthinkable: go undercover to infiltrate the exiled North American Government, which is plotting a return from distant island bases. Rebuilt by hypnosis and armed with a manufactured identity, he is dropped into enemy territory where lie detectors, secret police, and politics are as dangerous as bullets. As Orsino navigates decayed corners of Europe and the competing visions of crime, government, and freedom, Kornbluth delivers a hard-edged adventure that doubles as a sharp political and social satire.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:43) Chapter 02

(00:29:34) Chapter 03

(00:43:19) Chapter 04

(00:59:08) Chapter 05

(01:12:01) Chapter 06

(01:21:55) Chapter 07

(01:33:09) Chapter 08

(01:42:17) Chapter 09

(01:58:35) Chapter 10

(02:10:34) Chapter 11

(02:20:55) Chapter 12

(02:39:40) Chapter 13

(02:54:58) Chapter 14

(03:11:24) Chapter 15

(03:24:50) Chapter 16

(03:37:25) Chapter 17

(03:50:51) Chapter 18

(04:03:04) Chapter 19

(04:14:30) Chapter 20

(04:25:28) Chapter 21

(04:32:23) Chapter 22

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