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In the future, the divide between the classes is larger than it perhaps has ever been. The privileged elite enjoy not only the finer things in life, but better chances at education, celebrity, and even more advanced medicine. Jack and Tom are two brothers in a family barely considered middle-class. Jack works at a country club with the club's tennis pro while Tom has shown the aptitude to attempt higher education and carve out a better life for his mother and brother. But Jack also belongs to an underground resistance trying to create upheaval in the system. When a tryst with an affluent woman leads Jack to discovering a flash drive with classified information on it, his life quickly becomes a living nightmare. Chief among his problems is Warren, a psychopathic power-player capable of controlling many people, who is determined to eliminate Jack and retrieve the lost data.
Mixing science fiction, action, and suspense, this story imagines a future that isn't quite dystopian. The disparity between the haves and the have-nots, and the prevalence of popular reality television shows makes the setting more like a logical progression of the modern day. The chapters in this book are brief, which is the perfect pace for a story like this, allowing the reader as many stopping points as they need while also urging them to keep going for just another one or two. While the genre and the characters fit the young adult category, there are elements of sex and violence in this book that should be left to more mature readers even within that demographic. Imaginative and gripping, this book tells a story that blends the familiar and the fantastical.