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"The Fugitive" meets "Blade Runner" with a Kevin Brooks kick in this heart-stopper about a boy who discovers he's not one hundred percent human. It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: "What the hell is that?"
"It's me," Robert thinks, "and I've got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.
"It's me," Robert thinks, "and I've got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.
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A subtle, spooky, headlong dash through the dark edges of romantic science fiction, a genre Kevin Brooks – with his usual delight in flouting convention – appears to have invented (Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now)
Violently enjoyable (The Times)
Original in its premise and captivating in its delivery. A gripping read (Big Issue)
Sharp and precise . . . a meditation on the nature of humanity (Sunday Times)
An exciting on-the-run thriller . . . you'll be gripped (Flipside)
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Violently enjoyable (The Times)
Original in its premise and captivating in its delivery. A gripping read (Big Issue)
Sharp and precise . . . a meditation on the nature of humanity (Sunday Times)
An exciting on-the-run thriller . . . you'll be gripped (Flipside)
Kevin Brooks is the groundbreaking author of the internationally acclaimed novels DAWN; BLACK RABBIT SUMMER; BEING; THE ROAD OF THE DEAD, a Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" nominee; CANDY; KISSING THE RAIN; LUCAS; and MARTYN PIG, which received England's Branford Boase Award for Best First Novel. Brooks lives in Yorkshire, England.
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0439903424
- ISBN 13 9780439903424
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- Number of pages323
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