TY - BOOK AU - Barry,Max TI - Lexicon SN - 1101604905 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - The Penguin Press KW - Linguists KW - Fiction KW - Persuasion (Psychology) KW - Secret societies KW - Romantic suspense fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless ER -