Some people deserve to die. Marci Kov?cs chooses who. Budapest, AD2132. In a city this big, opportunities for promotion are rare unless you're willing to do anything, and Kov?cs is. As an Adjudicant, he oversees state computer MARTHA's Employee liquidation program. The winners get a shot at eternal life. The rest end up as statistics. MARTHA is infallible-so Marci believes. That's until colleague Alex discovers eighty-three murders...