Plot Points
This character is close to earning freedom but must fight her lover.
What is Loretta Thurwar?
Lorretta Thurwar's lover and a key fighter in CAPE
What is Harmara Stacker?
The highest rank a CAPE fighter can achieve, granting them freedom.
What is High Freedom?
The author of the book
What is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
This program allows incarcerated people to fight in death matches for the chance at freedom.
What is CAPE?
The only CAPE participant to achieve High Freedom
What is Nova Kane Walker?
These points are the in-program currency earned through killing opponents.
What are Blood Points
The organizers behind CAPE and the Deathmatches
What are Game Masters
This character dies in a match when they were only 16 years old.
Who is Teacup?
This character is a notorious CAPE fighter who killed off his entire chain except for one person.
Who is Simon J. Craft?
A type of match where the fighter's opponent is not revealed until the battle begins.
What is a Qustion Match
The full name for the abbreviation CAPE
Criminal Action Penal Entertainment
The protagonist of the book's flashbacks, a member of the Sing-Attica-Sing Chain
What is Hendrix Young?
The CAPE participant who lost his life in a BlackOut night.
Who is Sunset Harkless?
The CAPE team consisted of Lorretta Thurwar and Hurricane Staxx.
What is the Angola-Hammond Chain?
This device, used as a form of punishment and control in the novel, was initially designed to relieve pain.
What is the Influencer
This rule change forces two teammates who reach the Colossal rank to fight each other.
What is Season 33 Rule?
The sports newscaster who spoke out against CAPE during her first day working for the primary network.
What is Tracy Lasser?
The term for CAPE participants
What are Links?
This piece of legislation legalized the CAPE program in the novel.