The Book of Eadie: Volume One of the Seventeen Trilogy: 1

Corporations control all of the worlds diminishing resources and all of its governments dividing the world into two types of people: those who unquestioningly obey and those who die. Most of the worlds seventeen billion humans are unconscious perpetually serving their employers as part of massive brain trusts. The ecosystem has collapsed naturally growing plants have been declared illegal and everything from food to housing to medicines must be synthesized from secretions of genetically modified bacteria. Only corporate ambulatory workers can afford patented synthetic food and non-corporates fight for survival in the citys sprawling grotesquely violent ghetto known only as the Zone. Nineteen year-old waitress Eadie challenges the hierarchy when she assists a bedraggled alcoholic known as the Prophet drawing massive social-control machinery into play against her. The Prophet predicts shes the general who will lead a revolution and a few desperate souls start listening. How can she and her followers possibly prevail when shes being hunted by a giant corporation and the Federal Angels it directs?