Populace

In a new society, science has changed the landscape as well as the minds of the people.  The USA as we know it no longer exists, just a large corporately controlled mega city, surrounded by the wilds.  Leviathan runs what’s left of the USA, providing everything its population could require, including “better” living through chemistry.

Tom doesn’t know that anything exists beyond the city, to him the city IS the entire world. Until he is recruited by Leviathan to go out into the wilds and capture the larges enemy of the state. Tom is left to learn several versions of the truth about the world, the country and his own existence.

The novel contained some really great elements, some futuristic components and some nods to the possible slippery slope of modern society.  It didn’t quite gel for me, however.  Perhaps purposefully, none of the characters were particularly likable and the bridge to the back story never quite solidified.

In true dystopian fashion, it does leave the reader with some interesting what-if’s.