"The only escape is a welcome death"--Back cover. "The year is 2033, and the endless "wars"--terror, on drugs, on the illegal immigration caused by floods of starving refugees -- have transformed the word's prisons into over-crowded powder kegs. The solution, championed by the crypto-fascist New Freedom Party of America and sold to the world, is the super penitentiary ships -- massive floating strongholds that operate in international waters beyond political borders and the reach of humanitarian watchdogs"--author website