Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

In a dystopian future where the US economy is collapsing under the weight of government regulations, the country's most creative industrialists and thinkers begin to mysteriously disappear. They are led by the enigmatic John Galt on a strike of the mind, refusing to let their talents be exploited by a society that demands their sacrifice.

Ayn Rand's magnum opus is the dramatization of her philosophy of Objectivism. It is a controversial and passionate defense of rational self-interest, capitalism, and the heroic potential of the individual. It remains a cult classic and a political touchstone.