But what is the truth? What is IT hiding beyond the silo’s view? And can the new sheriff stop the silo from imploding in warfare and death, or being buried alive in lies? But their deaths, and the appointment of a new sheriff from “deep down” in Maintenance, lead to a chain of events that might spark a new and dangerous uprising – or might lead to the truth finally being exposed. Her discoveries drive her to apparent madness, and she is sent to cleaning her husband, heartbroken, follows her some years later. (It is an interesting fact, however, that no criminal, however upset or angry, ever fails to clean the cameras before dying.)Ī sheriff’s wife, working on a process for retrieving deleted files, uncovers evidence that there is information hidden from the average citizen, secrets about the world outside their safe haven. These cameras are cleaned regularly by criminals exiled to their deaths, mainly for the crime of expressing a wish to see what the outside world is like – their punishment is simply to be given what they want. Outside, the air is toxic and dangerous, and the only view most citizens get is through cameras pointing at the outside world. Wool is a collection of five books concerning the citizens of a mysterious “silo”, who live in vertically-organized communal comfort with maintenance floors deep down, hydroponic gardens and nurseries in the middle, the IT department higher up, and the mayor, sheriff, and airlock at the very top.

Wool omnibus by hugh howey