In a perfect world what is there left to fear? A chilling & thought-provoking sci-fi novel from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman A dark gripping & witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death In a world where disease war & crime have been eliminated the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional scythes Citra & Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices & despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing & understand the necessity of what they do Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice & as Citra & Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser