The Price of Freedom

The Bar code Tattoo is an enticing book that plays on controversial views of mass control, genetic manipulation, and authoritarianism. The heroine, young Miss. Kayla Reed is trapped in an alternate future, where people are manipulated and controlled by use of bar code tattoos on their wrists. Kayla and her fellow activists live in Putnam, New York in the year 2025. The setting in the novel rarely stays the same, as Kayla travels around so much as to be rid of her past and while also trying to find her future. Kayla is just an artistic young woman, with an aptitude for psychic visions and a caring persona, trapped in a downward spiral of unfortunate events. Along with her friend Mfumbe, a smart and friendly young man, they together face hardships no one should ever have to go through no matter what their age. Through companionship and many difficult ordeals, Kayla and Mfumbe discover the price of freedom and what it means to love.