Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0399150978, Hardcover)

From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report.

Set in the day after tomorrow, Idlewild opens as a young man awakes with amnesia: He cannot remember who he is and doesn't recognize anything around him-all he knows for sure is that someone is trying to kill him. Not certain whom he can trust, he becomes reacquainted with eight companions, all of whom are being trained at a strange school run by an enigmatic figure named Maestro. Working to uncover the identity of the person who has attempted to murder him, the young man quickly starts to unravel a series of truths, making it clear that much more than just his life is at stake.

Taking the best of the genre and transcending it, Sagan's cool debut will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Orson Scott Card, while also drawing in readers of novels such as House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451212061, Paperback)

A young man is suddenly startled awake. He has no memory. He knows only one thing for certain: Someone is trying to kill him.

Unsure of whom to trust, he is reacquainted with eight companions-trainees of an enigmatic figure known as Maestro. As he attempts to unearth his past and outwit an unseen enemy, skills he never knew he had come into play. And it soon becomes clear that there is far more than his life at stake...

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451461983, Paperback)

A young man is suddenly startled awake. He has no memory. He knows only one thing for certain: Someone is trying to kill him. Unsure of whom to trust, he is reacquainted with eight companions-trainees of an enigmatic figure known as Maestro. As he attempts to unearth his past and outwit an unseen enemy, skills he never knew he had come into play. And it soon becomes clear that there is far more than his life at stake...

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553815970, Paperback)

It is a not-too-distant future in our all-too-recognizable world. It is the late twenty-first century and a deadly virus has seeped into human kind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped us off the face of the planet, but we're not going down without a fight. Teams of scientists, geneticists and programmers race to find a cure, but time is not on our side and our only hope lies in one last, desperate gamble ...Eighteen years later and ten individuals are about to come of age. One of them, a young man, is suddenly startled awake. He has no memory. His surroundings mean nothing to him. All he knows for certain is that someone is trying to kill him. Unsure who he can trust, he is reacquainted with his companions, all of whom are being trained at a special establishment run by the elusive Maestro. As he tries to uncover the identity of his would-be killer, it becomes clear that more - so much more - than just his life is at stake ...Smart, stylish, terrifying and thrilling in equal measure, Idlewild fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report, and introduces a singular new literary voice.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0593051904, Hardcover)

Smart, stylish near-future thriller fusing the fierce imagination of THE MATRIX with the chilling social vision of MINORITY REPORT...Set in the day after tomorrow, IDLEWILD opens as a young man awakes with amnesia. He cannot remember who he is and doesn't recognise where he is. All he knows for certain is that someone is trying to kill him. Unsure who he can trust, he becomes reacquainted with eight companions, all of whom are being trained at a strange special school, run by an elusive, enigmatic man named Maestro. As he tries to uncover the identity of the faceless person - or persons - who is after him, he begins to unravel a series of truths, of puzzles within puzzles. It soon becomes clear that more - much more - than just his life is at stake...