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The Detainee

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Peter Liney honed his strong narrative skills and attention to detail during his long career as a writer of German, Australian, British, and South African television and radio programs. In his debut novel, The Detainee, Liney has crated a dystopian world in which the state has gone bust and can no longer support its weakest members.

The Island is a place of hopelessness. The Island is death. And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm are shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society. There's no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver instant judgment for any crime--including escape attempts--and not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the satellites are all but blind. But when one of the Island's inhabitants, the aging "Big Guy" Clancy, finds a network of tunnels beneath the waste, there is suddenly hope--for love, for escape, and for the chance to fight back.

From the Hardcover edition.


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Series: Detainee Publisher: Quercus

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781681448909
  • Release date: March 11, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781782060345
  • Release date: March 11, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781782060345
  • File size: 1180 KB
  • Release date: March 11, 2014

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Peter Liney honed his strong narrative skills and attention to detail during his long career as a writer of German, Australian, British, and South African television and radio programs. In his debut novel, The Detainee, Liney has crated a dystopian world in which the state has gone bust and can no longer support its weakest members.

The Island is a place of hopelessness. The Island is death. And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm are shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society. There's no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver instant judgment for any crime--including escape attempts--and not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the satellites are all but blind. But when one of the Island's inhabitants, the aging "Big Guy" Clancy, finds a network of tunnels beneath the waste, there is suddenly hope--for love, for escape, and for the chance to fight back.

From the Hardcover edition.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Quercus

    Kindle Book
    ISBN: 9781681448909
    Release date: March 11, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781782060345
    Release date: March 11, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781782060345
    File size: 1180 KB
    Release date: March 11, 2014

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English