Wipe Out

<p><strong>Family is an outlawed concept.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Friendships are forbidden. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>All procreation is artificial and government-controlled.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Hazel, a factory-born military driver, accepts these rules as necessities for human survival after the Wipe Out. </p><p><br></p><p>But deep inside, she is haunted by a loneliness she can't fully understand.</p><p><br></p><p>When her assistant, Salt, dies in mysterious circumstances, clutching a photograph of what appears to be a mother and son, Hazel is assigned to Military Intelligence and ordered to track down the woman and boy. They are an anomaly - a breach of the strict Moral Code: </p><p><br></p><p><strong>No woman should ever know her own child. No child should ever meet his mother.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Hazel enlists the help of military cadet Lake. Lake challenges everything Hazel has always believed, and they become close friends despite the rules.</p><p>Their search leads them deep into a wasteland, where the people they meet force Hazel to re-examine the world: People like Zac, who couldn't be brainwashed; the young cadets risking their lives for the sake of their love for each other; and Ethan, the fugitive Psychoscientist who reveals everything he knows about a secret government research lab that's experimenting on healthy humans by infecting them with deadly viruses.</p><p><br></p><p>Hazel agrees to help Zac and Ethan expose the human experiments. She leads Lake and the cadets in a series of daring raids, gun battles, and escapes, with government forces in hot pursuit.</p>