IMAGINE A WORLD IN WHICH BOOKS, libraries and newspapers are things of the past. A world where devices called Memes synchronise with people's minds and call taxis, order food and even give medicine - often without a user's command. Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE. It's a code word Doug devised to signal if he ever fell into harm's way. In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages. Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology.