Dead Zone - Softcover

Goulding, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508698635 ISBN 13: 9781508698630

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Dead Zone is an inventive and exciting thriller set during the Second World War. It takes as its starting point, a detail from Antony Beevor’s Berlin, in which he describes how a strangely mixed band of deserters surrendered in Poland to the advancing Soviet forces. The novel develops this in an imaginative and suspenseful fashion, following the story of the band through to their betrayal to and capture by the Soviet secret police. The police chief reveals the hitherto concealed backgrounds of each individual before they are taken off to HQ for punishment. The last chapter provides a major metaphysical twist that requires the reader to reconsider everything s/he has read before, and in the process to grapple with the underlying themes. At this deeper level, the novel problematizes attitudes towards crime and punishment, sin and atonement, and debates these themes in the light of Dostoevsky’s two most famous novels, both of which are intertextualised in Dead Zone. The result is emphatically not feel-good; but it is exciting and thought-provoking.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1508698635
• ISBN 13: 9781508698630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314