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The Deserter

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Junior Fiction
BIC Subjects: Science fiction
Publisher: Random House Children's Publishers UK
Imprint: David Fickling Books
Publication Date: 15/05/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $19.95
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Humans are weak and vulnerable. Soon the beasts that share their stone-age world will kill and eat them. To save his tribe, Stopmouth must make his way to the Roof, the mysterious hi-tech world above the surface. But the Roof has its own problems. The nano technology that controls everything from the environment to the human body is collapsing. A virus has already destroyed the Upstairs, sending millions of refugees to seek shelter below. And now a rebellion against the Commission, organized by the fanatical Religious, is about to break. Hunted by the Commission's Elite Agents through the overcrowded, decaying city of the future, Stopmouth must succeed in a hunt of his own: to find the secret power hidden in the Roof's computerized brain, and return to his people before it is too late. Ages 12+.