Chain Gang All Stars

　　在這個私有監獄文化猖獗的反烏托邦世界裡，彷彿置身古代的羅馬競技場
　　唯有決一死戰，才是擁有自由的唯一路徑
 
　　Loretta Thurwar和Hamada Stacker(同時也被戲稱為「Staxxx颶風」)是Chain-Gang全明星中的頂尖明星，這群人是CAPE的基本要角，也就是一個戰犯娛樂的組織。在私有監獄盛行的美國領土上，造成熱潮，同時也成為一個可以賺進大把鈔票的產業。這些如同古羅馬競技場上戰士的人，也同時都是一個個罪犯，他們投身入這個驚險萬分以命相搏的戰場上，唯有一個目的：自由。
 
　　Thurwar以及Staxxx彼此是隊友，同時也是情侶，是這個殺戮戰場上，粉絲們的最愛。不過就Thurwar的情況而言，幸運的話，她只要再獲勝幾場，就可以重獲自由，然而準備迎接光明未來的同時，她也心心念念著自己這一群生死相伴的隊友們。Thuwar要如何能夠對抗CAPE這股強大的控制力量，為自己，也為夥伴們贏得生而為人原有的自尊呢？(文／博客來外文館)

　　NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black
 
　　“Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah’s book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing.” —The Washington Post
 
　　“This book will change you!…A masterpiece.” —Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show’s #ReadWithJenna
 
　　She felt their eyes, all those executioners…
 
　　Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
 
　　In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE’s corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences.   
 
　　Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a “new and necessary American voice” (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review).