Control reports to a handler called "The Voice" at Central over phone calls and e-mail. He comes from a family of operatives: his mother and grandfather are prominent and influential members. The public is led to believe that the region suffered an environmental disaster and is isolated for safety in truth, the region has been taken over by an unknown force changing the environs and ecosystem behind a largely impenetrable "border." He is a secret operative assigned by the mysterious Central group which oversees the Southern Reach. John "Control" Rodriguez takes over as the new director of the Southern Reach, a government agency formed to manage a coastal region named Area X. The second book takes place in the human inhabited areas unlike the first book, Annihilation, which was set within Area X. The agency is responsible for the investigation into the unexplained phenomena of Area X. Īuthority revolves around the operatives of the Southern Reach agency. In an interview, VanderMeer stated that, "if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions." It was released in May 2014. It is the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer.
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