William Pinecroft

City 55 William Pinecroft

When society crumbles, the Proxy rises. But safety has a price, and in 2039, that price is individuality. Since the world's countries united under a single entity known only as the World Government, diversity has slowly but surely begun to fade away, giving way to efficiency, modernity, and a life bound to order. Biometric chips link the populace to a universal collective subconscious. Those who can find the strength to defy are seized by sentinels that patrol the streets round the clock. Soon, the old ways are lost forever. Charlie Huff has never known any different. A victim of the new world order, he has long since lost the thrill that comes with a unique thought. But while it seems everyone else has been completely indoctrinated, Charlie begins to wonder if this is truly all there is. The government has been careful. It has been methodical. It never expected rebellion. In City 55, a region birthed from the ruins of San Francisco, Charlie Huff soon finds himself thrust to the edge of sanity while fighting to survive. With the arrival of his perfect girl and the support of his longtime friend, Charlie is pushed to question the status quo, realizing for the first time since childhood that the world should be different. With the World Government always watching, and its despot extending her web of control further than ever before, what hope can an otherwise unimpressive paramedic have to change things? Pitted against the most powerful government the world has ever seen and struggling to understand his newfound love, Charlie wrestles with the most important question of his life: Should he challenge what has become the norm or should he settle for what has been?