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"Will you know very well what it needed for Socrates' enemies to make him stop seeking the truth?" "Hemlock." Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a significant honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant hidden knowledge society, Prisom's Party, threatens its placid halls with vigilante justice, revealing students and instructors similarly for even the most trivial infraction. Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, seems sure she can break into the ranks of The Devil's Advocate, the Party's underground paper, and there reveal the foundation of its blackmail strategies and vilifying rumors. Some involve the school's new science educator, who also appears to be investigating the Party. Others indicate an albino college student who left institution abruptly 10 years before, to never give back. And everything attaches to a uncommon booklet called Marvelous Species. But the truth comes with its own hazards, and Iris is torn between her allegiances, her reporter's instinct, and her own troubled past. The 12 months of the Gadfly is an exhilarating journey of double-crosses, deeply buried secrets, and the lifelong reverberations of sacrificing someone you love. Following in the tradition of classic institution novels such as A Independent Peacefulness, Prep, and The Solution History, it reminds us how these years haunt our lives permanently.
