Africa is the last frontier in a starving and overpopulated world. A world gone dry. A world of horror where literacy and thought are for machines only. Africa is the last hope for Knowle Noland. He has escaped the farms, wrecked a ship, and fled the System, only to encounter Peter Mercater, an old oppressor with new ideas ... and Justine ... a complex and mysterious femme fatale who equates annihilation with salvation.
