World of Stone 1
Regulator / Mercenary
Ho Che Anderson(Author)
Dundurn Group Ltd (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4597-5296-2 (ISBN)
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The Merit Party cancelled the democratic election and turned America into a dictatorship, but there are some who will rise to stand against the tide of fascism.
Graciella "Stone" O'Leary just wants a chance to use her basketball skills and her powerful intelligence to make a better life for herself and her father. But after a night as a prisoner of the Martins, the regional directors of the Merit Party, she learns the painful lesson that in the world that exists after the Cancelled Election, her future is not hers to decide. Like her ancestor Boudica, the rebel queen who took on the Roman Empire, Stone will risk everything to bring death and destruction on the elites who control her world and repress everyone not born to privilege.
Rizzo was a legend in the making, a kid from the flats on the way to becoming a pro basketball player, until crossing the Martins landed him on the Chain Gang facing a slow, cruel death sentence of years of hard labour. You work till you drop, and when you can't work anymore, you die. After watching the guards drag two men to their execution for a trivial offence, Rizzo decides to enact his plan: he will lead a revolution to overthrow the Merit Party. He knows where to start - by hitting them at their most sensitive point, their money, in an outrageous heist that shouldn't be possible.
Stone, Rizzo, and others who join them will fight not just for the impossible dream of overthrowing the system, but to inflict on the Merit elites a righteous nightmare of blood, fire, and revenge.
Graciella "Stone" O'Leary just wants a chance to use her basketball skills and her powerful intelligence to make a better life for herself and her father. But after a night as a prisoner of the Martins, the regional directors of the Merit Party, she learns the painful lesson that in the world that exists after the Cancelled Election, her future is not hers to decide. Like her ancestor Boudica, the rebel queen who took on the Roman Empire, Stone will risk everything to bring death and destruction on the elites who control her world and repress everyone not born to privilege.
Rizzo was a legend in the making, a kid from the flats on the way to becoming a pro basketball player, until crossing the Martins landed him on the Chain Gang facing a slow, cruel death sentence of years of hard labour. You work till you drop, and when you can't work anymore, you die. After watching the guards drag two men to their execution for a trivial offence, Rizzo decides to enact his plan: he will lead a revolution to overthrow the Merit Party. He knows where to start - by hitting them at their most sensitive point, their money, in an outrageous heist that shouldn't be possible.
Stone, Rizzo, and others who join them will fight not just for the impossible dream of overthrowing the system, but to inflict on the Merit elites a righteous nightmare of blood, fire, and revenge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Turn-around book
With flaps
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4597-5296-2 (9781459752962)
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Ho Che Anderson is the author of numerous books and graphic novels including King, Godhead, Sand & Fury, and The No-Boys Club. A former member of the motion picture union IATSE, he directed the short film The Big Reset - Governance for the National Film Board of Canada and received funding to direct the feature film Le Corbeau from Telefilm's Talent to Watch program. Ho Che lives in Toronto.