The Office of Mercy / Ariel Djanikian.

Author: Djanikian, Ariel.

Publisher: New York : Viking, 2013.

ISBN: 9780670025862 (hbk.)
0670025860 (hbk.)

Description: 304 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopias. gsafd
Utopian fiction. gsafd

Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.

Summary: "Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five, a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha's allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as she knows it"--Amazon.com