The Office of Mercy

<b>A cool and compelling (<i>Flavorwire</i>) debut of a new postapocalyptic world for fans of <i>The Hunger Games</i></b><br><p>On the screen and on the page dystopian fantasies have captivated the public imagination. In <i>The Office of Mercy </i> debut novelist Ariel Djanikian has conceived a chilling post-apocalyptic page-turner that has earned her glowing comparisons to George Orwell and Suzanne Collins.</p><p>In America-Five there is no suffering hunger or inequality. Its citizens inhabit a high-tech Utopia established after a global catastrophe known as the Storm radically altered the planet. Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley works in the Office of Mercy tasked with humanely terminating--or sweeping--the nomadic Storm survivors who live Outside. But after she joins a select team and ventures Outside for the first time Natasha slowly unravels the mysteries surrounding the Storm--and the secretive elders who run America-Five.</p>