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Every thirty years a month of madness descends on Earth, with ten billion visitors partying, polluting, and brawling. Between these chaotic months, the Million—custodians of humanity’s wealth and history—exercise absolute control, living lives of unimaginable privilege and wealth they deem theirs by right.
Gavin Penn-of-Chaffee is an illegal child hidden among the Million’s elite. Raised in secrecy, his family is torn apart, forcing him to assume the identity of a dead boy to stay alive. Unknown to him, his new persona is targeted by the School of Auditors, the Million’s feared police force dedicated to locating and capturing outcasts like him.
To solve the murder of his adoptive father, Gavin must maintain his disguise and use his wits within the stronghold of those threatened by his very existence, navigating the treacherous layers of privilege, power, and undercover danger.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Karl Schroeder
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