Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman. The bankrupt government shuts down. Homeless people and gangs roam the streets of New York. Money is worthless, markets collapse, and businesses fail. Smugglers use the latest encryption technology to operate bold enterprises that government is powerless to stop. A private mercenary army protecting a vast black-market empire, headed by a former Green Beret and his ex-CIA sidekick, battles an FBI run by a ruthless Director who's blackmailing the president and putting radicals in a secret prison in a desperate bid to maintain power. Caught in the middle of it all, are the brilliant 17-year-old son of a missing Nobel prizewinning economist, his best friend from prep school whose uncle was once a guerrilla fighter, and the beautiful but mysterious 17-year-old girl he meets in a secret underground. Laissez Faire is proud to make this groundbreaking, long out-of-print novel available again in its original hardback edition, now with a signed and numbered tip-in sheet!

Hardback, 181 pages, $19.95.