The Prisoner

2049. Earth's prisons are shut down and all inmates placed in massive hibernation tanks. In the ten years since then, no one has broken out...until now.When prisoners check into Washington D.C.'s maximum security "sugar cube," they don't check out. Here lie suspended not just the planet's most dangerous criminals, but also half a million so-called "center inmates"--troublesome activists whose only offense is to challenge those in power. Laurel Cole was one of those inmates--and now she's on the run. After pulling off a meticulously executed escape plan, she and her team must elude the police by descending into the tunnels that run like poisoned veins beneath the city. Pursued by a ruthless mercenary who knows these sewers better than anyone, Laurel seeks help from a group of renegades who live huddled in the fetid darkness. But if she ever hopes to see daylight again--and expose the government's lies--she'll have to go even deeper. . . and the clock is ticking.From the Paperback edition. 2049. Earth's prisons are shut down and all inmates placed in massive hibernation tanks. In the ten years since then, no one has broken out...until now. When prisoners check into Washington D.C.'s maximum security "sugar cube," they don't check out. Here lie suspended not just the planet's most dangerous criminals, but also half a million so-called "center inmates"—troublesome activists whose only offense is to challenge those in power. Laurel Cole was one of those inmates—and now she's on the run. After pulling off a meticulously executed escape plan, she and her team must elude the police by descending into the tunnels that run like poisoned veins beneath the city. Pursued by a ruthless mercenary who knows these sewers better than anyone, Laurel seeks help from a group of renegades who live huddled in the fetid darkness. But if she ever hopes to see daylight again—and expose the government's lies—she'll have to go even deeper. . . and the clock is ticking. When prisoners check into Washington, D.C.'s maximum security 'sugar cube, ' it's for keeps. Here, and in sugar cubes across the country, lie suspended not just the world's most dangerous criminals but also scores of so-called 'center inmates'--secret, troublesome activists whose only offense was to challenge those in power. But now someone wants those secrets brought to light. A crack team led by idealist Laurel Cole infiltrates the prison to break out one special inmate. Yet Laurel soon discovers that attempting to escape from an inescapable prison is only the start of her worries. For the conspiracy that has held Eliot Russo captive for over eight years stretches further and deeper than Laurel and her team ever envisioned, and she will be risking more than her life to uncover the government's lies