"When Mae Holland is hired to work for the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling, hip California campus, links all of users' online data with their universal operating system, creating a new age of civility and transparency. But what begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and limits of human knowledge."--Back cover.