In a country where most books are banned, feisty barmaid Jet Black finds herself with the world's only copy of Julius Caesar's long-lost masterpiece, De Analogia. If she can deliver the book to a mysterious black market dealer known only as Polymath, she may well make her fortune. If she's caught with it in her possession, death is probably the better option.
It's about privatisation and the rising power of the multinational megastate.