Of crimes and punishment: The truth inhabiting silence cries out to be heard as Jon, Judge, and the ethereal Marie struggle for redemption under the ravagings they themselves create. Jon agonizes under Anna's intimations that baby Adly is not his, and a moment's blinding desolation cascades to infanticide. Jenny lords unrelenting dominion over Judge as she intimates knowing of Judge's horrific crime, and bends him to sentence Jon to death. The ethereal Marie and her brother Liddle, the Governor, suffer Smith's damning intimations as they stay Jon's execution in the face of a murderous public...

Ben Rob covets a future of genuine equality, fully understanding the provisos needed to realize that halcyon vision: he must submerge himself in the murk of elitist politics with one tactic... to so elevate the elite, and to so beset the masses, that revolution-and its carnage-is all but inevitable. Ben Rob must decide if the ends can ever justify the means, no matter how lofty the ends, by the means of: 'give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves.' Ben Rob engineers his transfer from State University to The Rafford, the university exclusively of and for the elite, and throws himself...