Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, heroine Dagny Taggart fights to save her transcontinental railroad from collapse. Dagny's efforts prompt her to seek out the man who stopped the motor of the world and to hunt down the destroyer who's leading a strike of the great minds. She finds both in the person of John Galt, who asserts that the first right of human beings is the freedom to think and act independently.