{"product_id":"wipe-out","title":"Wipe Out","description":"\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFamily is an outlawed concept.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriendships are forbidden. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAll procreation is artificial and government-controlled.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003eHazel, a factory-born military driver, accepts these rules as necessities for human survival after the Wipe Out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003eBut deep inside, she is haunted by a loneliness she can''t fully understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003eWhen her assistant, Salt, dies in mysterious circumstances, clutching a photograph of what appears to be a mother and son, Hazel is assigned to Military Intelligence and ordered to track down the woman and boy. They are an anomaly - a breach of the strict Moral Code: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo woman should ever know her own child. No child should ever meet his mother.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003eHazel enlists the help of military cadet Lake. Lake challenges everything Hazel has always believed, and they become close friends despite the rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003eTheir search leads them deep into a wasteland, where the people they meet force Hazel to re-examine the world: People like Zac, who couldn''t be brainwashed; the young cadets risking their lives for the sake of their love for each other; and Ethan, the fugitive Psychoscientist who reveals everything he knows about a secret government research lab that''s experimenting on healthy humans by infecting them with deadly viruses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHazel agrees to help Zac and Ethan expose the human experiments. She leads Lake and the cadets in a series of daring raids, gun battles, and escapes, with government forces in hot pursuit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484126323061,"sku":"9781620065778","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781620065778.jpg?v=1786266162","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/wipe-out","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}