Nyla Nox
ASIN: B00U7HRVNK
Publisher: Athens Publishers
Pages: 197
“Perhaps she did see the beast in the eye.” Joris Luyendijk, The GuardianNyla is not a hero. She works the graveyard shift from midnight to morning. Her life is hectic and her soul is slowly drying out. She is shouted at, constantly afraid of being culled and not even allowed toilet breaks. Nyla works inside the Building without a Name, at the most successful American investment bank in the city of London, but she is not a banker. She is one of many desperate humanities graduates who struggle and scrape to survive in the zero hours job of graphics operators, bullied by hordes of bankers in expensive suits who treat her as less-than-human while they boast of being 'leaders', members of a superior species. The entrance to the Bank, built on plague and exploitation, is through a medieval graveyard where Nyla has her breakfast sitting on the gravestones. Starting out deep in the Third ...