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When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up corporate wrongdoing that knowingly allows innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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<b>In this page-turning contemporary thriller, National Book Award Finalist, Printz Award winner, and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Paolo Bacigalupi explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped.</b><br><br> Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At least that's what a mysterious young man who's stalking her keeps saying. But then she begins investigating the disturbing claims he makes against her father. Could her dad really be at the helm of a firm that distorts the truth and covers up wrongdoing by hugely profitable corporations that have allowed innocent victims to die? Is it possible that her father is the bad guy, and that the undeniably alluring criminal who calls himself Moses--and his radical band of teen activists--is right? Alix has to make a choice, and time is running out, but can she truly risk everything and blow the whistle on the man who loves her and raised her?
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