<i>"Profound... sure to spark a reaction" and "scathing, ceaselessly engaging"</i>- <b>Kirkus Independent Review</b><br><br><i>"A brilliant rebuttal of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged"</i> - <b>Clarion Reviews</b><br><br> CHARLES THATCHER is a private citizen, which is to say that he's the private property of the Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation. He's got problems: the cost of air is going up, his wife wants to sell herself to another corporation, and his colleagues are always trying to get him tossed into the lye vats.<br> <br> But when he discovers a woman stealing rainwater, he sees his chance to move up in the world, maybe even become an executive. He reports her, spinning a picture, not just of a thief, but of a seditionist and revolutionary, someone who believes in that long-dead institution called "government."<br> <br> Then she vanishes<br> <br> Overcome with guilt, he tries to track her down. What he discovers is an underground movement every bit as seditious as the one he had imagined.<br> <br> But as he becomes enamored with their cause and with life outside his corporation, Charles must contend with a larger truth; in a world where everything is for sale and lies are more profitable than the truth, even a group of revolutionaries can have something to hide.
