Publisher's Synopsis
Congratulations Goose Glastonbury, you've just won the lottery! Too bad that in an overpopulated world running short on natural resources, that means that you've just been selected to be removed from society and assigned to become food for the working class.
When a narcoleptic and disfigured teenager hits on the number six during the annual and onerous State-run lottery, he returns home to find the assassin Anachondra Amin waiting to escort him to the Ceremony of Honor, a smokescreen for his real and ultimate destination. The food processing plant in District 13. Executing a strategy of deceit and confusion, the young man escapes the company of his escort and makes a break for the nearest country that offers refuge to lottery winners. But how will he be able to avoid capture from Amin's dogged pursuit when his disfigurement won't allow him to hide himself in a crowd and he can't stay awake and alert because of his neural condition? With the help of his best friend and guided by members of the secret and clandestine organization known as the Free Earth Society, Glastonbury sets out on a desperate 1300-mile journey along a modern-day Underground Railroad in an attempt to reach the safety and freedom of Canadian soil. The problem is that one of them is carrying a deadly secret that will threaten to bring down the Free Earthers, dooming all future lottery winners to their grisly fate and rendering any attempt to get Goose Glastonbury to freedom an exercise in complete futility.
