Mars Adrift – The Halo Trilogy: Book 3 By McFall and Hays – Lone Star Book Blog Tour. Categories: Science Fiction / Detective ( Hard-Boiled) / Mystery. My Review: Imagine an environment where all humankind on Earth, Mars and beyond is connected through a vast all powerful computerized network .  Contemplate a condition where all infants are fitted with ocular implants that constantly transmit and receive information to and from that very network, an entity known as Halo.  There is no personal privacy.  Everyone is exposed to the same data and you can’t turn it off or detach from it unless you literally rip your eye, the one with the OCD implant, from its socket.  Every  visual image, every spoken word, thought and emotion is recorded.  Every recording can be accessed by those with high enough authority, and so can every live feed – in real time.  This story is told, 50 years after the fact, from the point of view of two who have that authority – a human professor of history named Lauren Valentine and her partner, Sanders. Read More…