[Blog Tour] Proxy (Proxy # 1) by Alex London: Excerpt, Giveaway + Signing Event Details

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Author: Alex London

Release date: June 18th 2013
Publisher: Philomel

Series: Proxy # 1

Age Group: Young Adult

Genre: Dystopia

Tour organized by: Pinoy Book Tours

Purchase: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository 

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Knox was born into one of the City’s wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want—the latest tech, the coolest clothes, and a Proxy to take all his punishments. When Knox breaks a vase, Syd is beaten. When Knox plays a practical joke, Syd is forced to haul rocks. And when Knox crashes a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is branded and sentenced to death.

Syd is a Proxy. His life is not his own.

Then again, neither is Knox’s. Knox and Syd have more in common than either would guess. So when Knox and Syd realize that the only way to beat the system is to save each other, they flee. Yet Knox’s father is no ordinary Patron, and Syd is no ordinary Proxy. The ensuing cross-country chase will uncover a secret society of rebels, test both boys’ resolve, and shine a blinding light onto a world of those who owe and those who pay. Some debts, it turns out, cannot be repaid. (via Goodreads)
 (via Goodreads)

Excerpt

     He swiped through his datastream, clutching the wheel with just his palms, and locked onto a holo of a long-faced puppy, its tail wagging and its little pink tongue hanging out. It bounded to her side of the windshield and licked her in 3D. She laughed. It was an old stock pic; he’d used it a thousand times before, but it never failed him.

     She waved her fingers around the glowing projection in the air and tossed a text back to Knox.

    CUTE, lit up on the windshield in front of him.

    She wasn’t just talking about the puppy. Knox half-smiled and bit down on his lower lip.

    She noticed. He was watching the road, but he knew that she noticed.

    Alice? Debbie?

    Her mother was on one of those Benevolent Committees. Saving the orphans or matching organ donors or something. Maybe both. They’d go well together. Her father was a mining executive for one of the big firms, data not dirtware. The real value was in data. He was a client of Knox’s father’s company, but that didn’t narrow it down much. Everyone was a client of Knox’s father’s company.

    Her father was bald, right? Knox thought he remembered a shiny bald head when he’d met the man. Must be nostalgia, like her old fashioned name. No one with money needed to go bald. He was probably a history buff. Or was that the last girl’s father? It was hard to keep these fathers and their hobbies straight. Charming fathers was so much more work than charming their daughters, with so much less reward.

               About the Author

Alex London writes books for adults (One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War), children (Dog Tags series; An Accidental Adventure series) and teens (Proxy). At one time a journalist reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, he is now a full time novelist living in Brooklyn, NY, where he can be found wandering the streets talking to his dog, who is the real brains of the operation.
In 2011, James left teaching to write full-time and now lives in London.

Hollow Pike is his first novel for young adults.

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TO ALL FILIPINOS:
I'm inviting each and every one of you to go on Saturday at Alex London's Signing Event. Please see details below. See you there.

Let's not forget to thank NBS for making this event possible.