ASIN: B01M2XR3YL
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 227
‘What we think of as outrageous is nothing but normal in this book…’
The year is 2297, and life in the Autonomous City of San Francisco is harsh and forbidding...for most people. For the elite so-called hereditary class, it's much easier, and they rule with such ancient Roman zeal.Those unfortunate souls outside this group are locked in a desperate struggle for survival, subsisting on whatever limited resources they can lay their hands on. Monitored by the frighteningly all-knowing and capricious "handle device," each citizen’s life is controlled by their ranking; a single number that determines what they're worth, and what Personal Consumption Resources they're allowed to have. Jake Forest is an obedience officer, and a non-hereditary member of society, with the impossible desire to join the upper class. However, Jake is thrust into more than he bargained for when the power-hungry ...
