Futuretrack 5 presents a cross-section of English life in A.D. 2012. The characters, each representative of one of the rigidly separated social classes, all maintain a semi-repressed hostility toward the domineering aspects of their government. Sadly, this underlying hatred is often vented at fellow social victims and not at authority itself.

Henry Kitson is the main character and narrator of this novel. At the start he is a young, successful student, Head Boy at his boarding school. But it is always clear that despite his achievements, Henry finds himself dissatisfied. His relationship with his family, like that of most Ests, exists only superficially. The boys at his school feel isolated because not only are they away from their families for years at a time, but they also have to compete with their friends and fellow students for placement into the Est class. At the end...