Alexander Wax has been treated like he's made of glass all his life.
He's had to suffer unimaginable pain from internal bleeding.
He's had to inject himself regularly just o stay alive.
In short, his life is typical for a hemophiliac.
But he's also forced to hide in his grandfathers attic for all his nearly fourteen years, something that would never occur back before the great Cataclysm, when the United States still existed.
Because the New Government has sworn to kill all “bleeders,” along with anyone else who is genetically incomplete.
When Alexander's existence is discovered, his house is razed, and his grandfather hung as a traitor to the system.
Upon his capture, the city Council unexpectedly agrees to Alexander's proposal. They'll allow hi m to survive if he can survive for three weeks in the radioactive wilderness.
So long as he can evade death at the hands and cudgels of the Termination Men...