Edge (Angry Robot) - Softcover
You thought Big Brother was tough? Try Knife Edge – the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.
Britain, tomorrow. The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalised. On Saturday nights, the nation sit down to watch the countries best fighters slash it out on prime time.
When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hires a former special forces agent to find him. With the help of the boy’s psychiatrist, Josh Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country with no guarantee that the boy is even still alive…
FILE UNDER: Future Thriller [Reality TV/ Slashed jugulars / Apocalyptic weather / Save the children]
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Product Description:
Welcome, sensation seekers, to knife edge. In a Britain on the edge of collapse, duelling with blades has now been legalised. On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country's best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming. In search of a missing boy, ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.
Review:
'John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again' --Robert J Sawyer, author of "Flash Forward
Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter's condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation. --The Guardian
The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising...an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending --ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk
Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter's condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation. --The Guardian
The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising...an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending --ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk
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- PublisherAngry Robot
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0061994200
- ISBN 13 9780061994203
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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