"It's been nineteen years since the Freedom First Party swept Democrats and Republicans from power in an American election that shocked the world. A new libertarian social order has radically transformed every facet of American life. Government departments, regulations, and programs are gone; free markets rule. With quality medical care now beyond the reach of all but a fortunate few, musician Jonathan Newman must find a way to pay his gravely ill son's hospital bills. In desperation he takes a sales job with QualLab, a global medical supply company. Once there, a web of wires, tubes, and sensors connect his naked body to a table in a secluded cell where he works twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, selling bio-laboratory tests made from human fluids and tissues--his."--Page 4 of cover.