A captivating novel by the multi-award-winning author, exploring the right to protest and freedom of thought and speech. Riley Diaz is a born revolutionary. However, her arrest under the implementation of a controversial national security law will lead her to one of the American Reformation Centers (ARC) - institutions modeled after the strict standards of psychiatric clinics - for observation and evaluation of her ability to reintegrate into society as a "reformed" individual. Mandatory sessions, enforced medication, isolation, and malnutrition are just some of the methods of the ARC program, designed to crush any disruptive element. Absolute obedience will be rewarded with freedom. Resistance can prove fatal... Trapped in the mandates of an unjust system, Riley will stand up, gain the trust of her fellow inmates, and with the help of an enigmatic patient known only as Frankenstein, will declare war against the insidious tactics of the ARC to shatter this "glass cage" once and for all. "J. Michael Straczynski is one of the most important contemporary figures in the field of science fiction." – Max Brooks, author of World War Z "We are lucky that Straczynski put aside comics and television for a while to gift us another great novel." -Locus "A terrifyingly intense story. Readers should seek out this exceptional novel." -Booklist "Elements reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest echo throughout this cinematic story." -Publishers Weekly