Super Short Summary

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland follows Dr. Melisande Stokes, a linguistics lecturer at Harvard, and Major Tristan Lyons, a military intelligence officer at a secret government agency called D.O.D.O. Their mission is to prove that magic once existed, understand why it disappeared during the Industrial Revolution, and find a way to bring it back to benefit society.