Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A Fine first edition/first printing with a few bumps to the outer edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust-jacket that is worn from the shelf.

In the future, the Earth is a harsh, arid wasteland, and the only people who live on it are the police and the military. The police are a brutal, corrupt force, and the military is a ruthless, oppressive force. When the military arrests a young woman named Siri, they discover that she is pregnant. They believe that she is a spy, and they take her to a secret prison. There, they torture her to find out what she knows. But Siri is not a spy, and she is not a criminal. She is a young woman who is trying to survive in a world that is not safe for her or her child.; 8vo; 391 pages.