"Raveyda confides that since she's started working for the Census she has been completely obsessed with Lieutenant Striker's remark about the Traejex particle being "everywhere but nowhere and nowhere everywhere in everything the Census does.""

An ordinary woman finds herself on an extraordinary mission in R. W. Taegel's adrenaline-pumping debut novel, "Census Deep Zero One."

Census interviewer Raveyda Roberts is thrilled to meet up with an old friend. As the two reminisce about their past days as cyber security specialists, one issue still bothers her: What is the Traejex particle,...