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None of which should be a problem, because Lesters brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBut Lester Ferris has made a friend: a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home when the island dies  who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. Now, as Mancreus small society tumbles into violence, the boy needs Lester to be more than just an observer.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn the name of paternal love, Lester Ferris will do almost anything. And hes a soldier with a knack for bad places: almost anything could be a very great deal  even becoming some sort of hero. But this is Mancreu, and everything here is upside down. 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