Would you dumb down to fit in? Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner - the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps originality, and minds are melded - one falsehood at a time. Being good at his job is his first mistake. In election year, politicians, terrorists, spies, publicists, journalists, and bluffers compete to make an example of him in their fight for a new global society. The professor is about to be taken to school...