"Dear Mother Nature, if I were you Id kill us. Love, Humanity"--Back cover."Whitebait is part science-fiction, part dystopian family drama. Why do we have to be poor? Lisa thought, trudging, disconsolate behind her father. Its just so humiliatingwhy cant it be a practical joke? Why cant Conrad suddenly emerge from the bush and take me? In whats becoming a Firestarter tradition, (if traditions can form after three publications) the cover tells a story at odds with the titléuntil you read the book"--Publisher website.