Peter has to live with a lot of hostility in Pincent Pharma, though Dr Edwards seems more positively inclined towards the Surpluses. When Jude hacks into the network of the Underground, they find him and he talks to Pip. Soon it becomes obvious that Richard Pincent plans to make Peter sign the Declaration, thus stopping the rumors and crushing the renewed hopes of any rebels. Peter is introduced to the basics of Longevity and gets a teacher, Dr Edwards, who is to make him understand about science.

Jude lives alone and spents most of his time at his computer, earning money with 'hack into the systems of a bank or major institution that relied on technology for its survival, then call them up and offer to improve their firewalls, for a price'. When Peter starts his first day at Pincent Pharma, his half-brother Jude is watching on his computer screen through hacked security cameras. They no longer live in Bloomsbury, but were “moved to a box in the suburbs” as the space is more 'efficient' for them. After a talk with Pip, who is the leader of the Underground in all but name, and the instruction to learn as much about Pincent Pharma as possible, while working for them, Peter goes home to Anna and Ben. The counselor is thrilled, but, unknown to her, Peter is only going to work there to help the Underground, an organization which believes that the Longevity drug is evil and is trying to destroy it. He tells the counselor he has finally agreed to go work for his grandfather, who makes Longevity drugs, which allows people to live forever.

This is supposed to let the counselor see how he is getting on in the outside world as a 'Legal'. The book starts off with Peter sitting in a room talking to a counselor. It is followed by The Legacy, published in 2010. It is a sequel to the book The Declaration, which is set in the year 2140.

The Resistance is a children's novel by Gemma Malley, published in 2008.

The resistance by gemma malley