Dayworld Rebel

In a far-future world, a unique cure has been found for the population explosion: each person lives only one day out of seven and spends the rest of the time in a state of suspended animation. Jefferson Caird was a 'Tuesday', and a policeman. But he led a secret life involving six other identities that allowed him to function every day of the week. The government caught and imprisoned him, tried to brainwash him, and threw away the key. But Caird escaped. Now, fleeing from a Manhattan prison through the wild forests of New Jersey, he falls in with an outlaw band of 'daybreakers' who have runaway from civilization and are wanted by the police, just for the crime of being awake seven days a week. But Caird's escape triggers an all-out bounty hunt because he knows something of enormous value; the government either wants the information or wants him dead before he can tell anyone else what he knows. Caird would rather not let them get close enough to find out which – the truth is, one of his many repressed personalities has the secret but won't divulge it! Caird and his friends flee across the country to the metropolis of Los Angeles, rising in graceful towers from the seas that flooded that city generations before. Here they will uncover the layers of deception that world government has inflicted on the people it has sworn to protect. And they will set in motion a desperate plan to win freedom, in a world where that word has almost ceased to have meaning.