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In the
future, the world is a hardened, unforgiving place.
Following wars and violent environmental change, cities
have fallen and new power hubs are being created. In
this world, you live in a City, or you die in the
swamps, deserts, and desolation beyond the reach of
civilization. Sixteen-year-old Syd is a Proxy, poor and
living in the slums, known as the Valve.
The
young rich who dwell in the luxurious City beyond the
Valve pay (as “Patrons”) for the contractual services of
the less fortunate (who become their “Proxies”). Whenever
a Patron breaks a law or bends a rule, their Proxy incurs
that “debt” and pays the price – in physical torture, and
days, weeks or even years of hard labor. Knox is Syd’s
Patron, and when he kills someone in a reckless act, Syd
is unwilling to pay the price and goes to find Know. When
he finds him, however, there is far more at stake than
just the lives of the two boys. Syd and Knox are the key
to changing everything – to breaking the system of Proxies
and Patrons, to absolving the power imbalance, to changing
their world. (Book Talk Author: Dodie Ownes, Colorado
Blue Spruce Award, 2015)
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