Zed (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Zed is having a bad day. She's twelve and there's someone around who's killing kids, which she doesn't have time for. Already today, she's knifed a rapist, traded with half the drunks and addicts in town, talked to the dead, bargained with a sociopath, and extracted crucial information from a mental patient, and she hasn't even left the building. Welcome to the Tower, an urban development project no city wants to lay claim to; a place to steer clear of if at all possible, but if you can't, you'll fit right in.|Zed is a novel about madness, survival, and crumbling institutions; it is an epic set in the squalor of an inner city, where rules are abandoned, and it's every man (and young girl) for him or herself.