Wednesday, July 27, 2011  An Agent's Inbox #14  Dear Agent's
Inbox,  Seventeen-year-old Jerome Harold Prewitt III is not the
first to fall from the pillars, but he is the first to survive.
To protect identities, everyone has a title. Jerome’s is “The
Boy,” which does not convey much importance. But from age
twelve, he has suspected that someone is out to get him. It
could be nothing, but when a jungle cat attacks him in a
suburban cemetery, he panics. He’s fortunate the girl with brown
eyes he just met (sitting on her own headstone, no less) knows
how to handle wild animals.  Over the years, she returns again
and again to save him as attempts on his life continue. That is
until the latest assailant takes her by mistake, leaving Jerome
falling from the pillars--the massive structures that support
whole neighborhoods miles above the polluted surface.  Now
Jerome is stuck in the Underworld, a debtors’ work camp, with no
one to rely on but himself. As he searches for answers as to why
anyone would want to kill h