Ebook: The Pet Thief

"The Pet Thief "is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankindOCOs inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world. aWhen scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animalsOCocats, specificallyOCofor organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective. Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, OC cat people, OCO who have escaped withaothers to the depths of a rundown European city being leveled for reconstruction. They are members of a street gang led by an ominous leader called Swan. Oboy is unable to think or speak except in mimicry, but he is a physical savant, which serves FredaOCOs mission. Enraged at what has been done to her, Freda wants to OC rescueOCO every pet she can. When Oboy returns with a human baby after his first solo outing, their world and the truths of their existence come unraveled. "