about the book
Knox is one of the City’s wealthiest teenagers, born into vast privilege as a Patron, with the latest tech and the most fashionable clothes never more than an arm’s length away.
All this is nothing compared with having a Proxy.
Sydney Carton, named after the Charles Dickens character, was rescued from the wastelands of what were once the eastern states of America. In repayment of that rescue, Syd is forced to become a Proxy for Knox. When Knox does anything wrong, anything at all, Syd is the one to take the punishment. Even death—when Knox crashes a car and kills another teen, Syd is set to be executed after a period of hard labor.
Syd has had enough of this! He escapes from the labor camp and makes his way into more wild lands, where shockingly he meets Knox face to face, which was always forbidden for a Patron and his Proxy. Knox has been thinking—maybe he is the one who owes Syd a massive debt.
Seeking to change their society, Patron Knox and Proxy Syd go on the run together, with the government after them, and a dangerous world of secrets before them.
about the author
When he was in first grade, Alex London wrote his first book. It was a joint writing and illustrating effort with his friend Jon, and it was called Larry and Luther Lizard Go to Summer Camp. After the creation of this book (which, of course, was not and never will be published), Alex thought maybe he could be a cartoonist. But he found drawing to be too boring.
He just didn’t realize a person could “be a writer” the same way a person could “be a doctor,” so the matter sat idle—until one day years later when he was ten, Alex wrote a letter to his favorite author, Brian Jacques of Redwall fame. To his amazement, Jacques actually wrote back, proving once and for all to Alex that writers were, shockingly, REAL people!
He decided right then and there that he could be a writer, too! He’ll be the first to tell you that daydreaming made him a storyteller but reading made him a writer.
Unfortunately, becoming an author didn’t happen for a while. At least, he did not make a living off of just writing. His first book was published when he was 23. To support himself he had to do tons of odd jobs, which led to many adventures, such as doing research in African refugee camps; becoming a professional librarian; and being an assistant to a Hollywood talent agent. He became a traveling journalist, too, which sent him to many foreign countries, braving four civil wars, an erupting volcano, and an unidentified bite that became infected in Thailand. That was gross.
Now Alex makes his living full-time as a writer and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His real name is Charles Alexander London. Sometimes he writes as C. Alexander London, sometimes as Alex London, and sometimes as Charles London.
Source:
Author website
Also by Alex London:
Guardian. Philomel. 2014.
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