Awe of Mercury

Mo is a penitent on the Death Spiral, a subterranean, circular death row. Each day, he gets closer to pen 1, where he will be executed. Trapped with the sniveling Nonstop, and only word games to pass the hours, Mo plans his most desperate escape attempt yet, with a toothpick, the juice of a stomach-destroying chili, and a bucket of urine. Far above the Spiral, the Fartherland--his home--has disintegrated into an appalling civil war. Mo knows this was triggered by the Moth's liberation, and that he is to blame for the carnage. Mo vows revenge, but each escape is a step into an even more horrific reality than before. Awe of Mercury is the stunning, unflinching conclusion to Clockwise to Titan.