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From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel, Last One Out, set in a modern ghost town. Carralon Ridge, once a vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of its former self. Its houses and buildings were bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. As a result, the setting of Last One Out reflects a place in steady decline.

Can a slave become a master? AD 37. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule. Cormac is a scribe in a noble household, and he has only ever known a life of slavery. When his master suddenly relieves him of his post, along with a hundred other men and women, his world collapses. Cormac receives documents that free him from bondage, but he receives no means to sur