Rise of the Red Hand

Written by Olivia Chadha

Narrated by Neil Shah, Soneela Nankani and Sharmila Devar

The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders live in a luxurious, climate-controlled biodome, where technology keeps them healthy and youthful forever.

Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with black-market robotics in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs.

Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen’s fate. As a smuggler with the best robotic arm and cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, her cargo includes the city’s most vulnerable abandoned children.

When the brilliant Uplander hacker Riz-Ali stumbles into the Red Hand’s dangerous activities, he and Ashiva uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to bury. As armed guardians kidnap children, massive robots flatten the slums, and a pandemic threatens to decimate the city, Ashiva and Riz must put aside their differences to fight the system and save the communities they love from destruction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: May 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9798892731249

Olivia Chadha

Olivia Chadha writes novels and comic books for MG, YA and adult audiences. She has a PhD in literature and creative writing, and her research centers on the history of exile, precarious borders and boundaries, global folklore, and the relationship between humans, machines and the environment. Balance of Fragile Things is her debut adult literary novel. Rise of the Red Hand, her YA debut, was awarded the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult Literature. She is a contributor to the YA folk horror anthology The Gathering Dark, the desi anthology Magic Has No Borders, and STAR WARS anthology Return of the Jedi: From A Certain Point of View. When not writing she’s searching for butterflies on a hike in Colorado. She can be found at www.oliviachadha.com.

Reviews for Rise of the Red Hand

[sennebec · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Everything you could possibly want in a dystopian tale-Strong characters, dire circumstances, plot twists aplenty, a grim world, an elusive ray of hope, betrayal and a gradual sorting out of events and who is to be trusted. I'll certainly look forward to what comes next.