Soybean Revolution - Chris Bentley

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Résumé :

In the country formerly known as the United States of America, a few massive bank corporations have foreclosed on the world's governments, replacing them with a meritocracy. Now, an individual's credit score and the economic value she can bring to society determines her worth. There are no safety nets or second chances.

Gwendolyn Reynolds-forced to grow up quickly when bank contract enforcers take her friend and mentor, Jefferson-lives on the outskirts of the crumbling city of Washington D.C. She continues a desperate attempt to disrupt the economic system and restore democratic rule and principles to a country she's never known. In her efforts, she meets powerful, new friends and allies who help plan their next attack in an ongoing revolution.

Patch Robinson is now a year older and a thousand times more aware of how wealth and power can lead to a much easier and more fulfilling life than the one he once knew, especially since being discovered by his wealthy patron, Malcolm. But even as he becomes more entrenched in the world of affluence and enjoys growing track and field fame, he finds himself more convinced than ever that the system that has brought him unimaginable opportunities is unfair and wrong in fundamental ways. It leaves people like he used to be in squalid, hopeless conditions at no fault of their own. But then again, how can a system that gives such opportunities to people like him, a former street kid, be bad?

See how two young, bright, and driven people chart a course that will change not only their own lives but also the lives within the entire world order in Soybean Revolution, book two in the Repossessed Trilogy.