Since he was no one, he could become anyone.

The nameless man had helped build the International Data Bank, a global surveillance network designed to record every movement, transaction, and decision made by every human being. Recognizing that the government database would destroy all digital privacy, he erased his records, changed his face, and created a secret back door into system. Now officially nonexistent, he survives as a freelance investigator and covert operative, accepting dangerous assignments that require someone who can infiltrate any organization—then vanish without a trace.

His latest manufactured identity is Albert Schweitzer, a technician assigned to Project RUMOKO, an audacious geoengineering experiment aiming to provide new land for an overcrowded world. By triggering volcanic activity on the ocean floor using nuclear explosions, these benevolent mad scientists can create artificial islands—but someone is sabotaging the entire operation.

As the undercover agent navigates industrial espionage, secret agendas, and deadly undersea danger, identifying the saboteur proves easier than deciding what to do with the truth. Once he discovers the motive behind the attacks, he faces an impossible moral choice with consequences that could reshape the balance of global power.

A gripping underwater techno-thriller exploring mass surveillance, moral compromise, and personal freedom, The Eve of RUMOKO by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny combines futuristic detective fiction, covert espionage, political intrigue, and psychological suspense. This prescient novella examines oceanic colonization as a solution to global overpopulation, while initiating the three interconnected adventures featured in Zelazny’s My Name Is Legion.

Perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Brunner, William Gibson, and Harlan Ellison, as well as readers of proto-cyberpunk, surveillance dystopias, sci-fi mysteries, secret-agent adventures, near-future conspiracies, corporate espionage, covert operations, nuclear fission, atomic-age technology, off-the-grid antiheroes, marine settings, and cerebral speculative fiction about geopolitical power, corporate ambition, and the ethics of scientific progress.

"A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen."  –George R.R. Martin

". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling."  –Robert Silverberg

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