Knox also receives a blood transfusion from Sydney due to his injuries unwittingly transmitting a mysterious 'virus.' Through his education with Mr. When Knox's actions result in the death of Marie Alvarez, an Upper City citizen, Syd is charged with vehicular manslaughter and is sentenced to a work prison. Since infancy, he has served as proxy for the rebellious Knox, whose behavior has resulted in frequent punishment throughout Syd's life. Sydney 'Syd' Carton is a 16-year-old boy who has been labeled as 'Chapter 11' due to being homosexual. This injustice has brought about the existence of 'The Rebooters', a rebel organization set on destroying this system by introducing 'Jubilee', an event that would erase all digital data and records, including currency and debts.

Any contact between the proxies and the patrons is outlawed. Many Lower City citizens assume this debt at birth and have no feasible way to repay, challenge, or escape it. The wealthy patron will pay for the poorer person's essential needs and in return they serve as proxies to be punished in place of the patron when the patron breaks the law, or supply the proxy's body for health purposes - e.g.

Upper City citizens can purchase the debts of people from the Lower City. As a result of the Lower City being infinitely indebted to the Upper City super corporations, the middle class has been eliminated altogether. Society has developed into a rigid class system where the Upper City lives in the height of luxury while the Lower City lives in utter poverty and rapidly accrue debt to pay for necessary health and technological services. The book is set in a distant post-cataclysmic future where civilization has evolved its technology so rapidly through unrestricted capitalism to bring about a world where nearly every conceivable service can be purchased. London drew inspiration for Proxy from the 1987 book The Whipping Boy, 'where the rich pay for the poor to take their punishments.' He states that the novel applies and integrates observations on society regarding debt, corporations, capitalism, progress in technology, social class, and human morality. The novel utilizes a third-person, subjective narration structure that alternates between Knox Brindle and Sydney Carton. A sequel to the novel has been released in 2014, Guardian. The novel, which was released on June 18, 2013, features a gay adolescent as its action-hero protagonist. Proxy is a 2013 sci-fi, dystopian young adult novel by Alex London.

Proxy by alex london