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Smith, M. Spares ISBN 13: 9780553106046

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Essef - Jack Randall is a loner, an ex-cop and a dangerous veteran of a savage war. For the last five years he has been hiding out on a spares farm, guarding people who have never seen the outside world. Jack has a talent of attracting trouble and we find him on the run with seven of the farm's inmates... Set in a futuristic fantasy world, with the first person narration of Jack Randall an ex cop and Gap war veteran. As in his other works, the narration is funny and readable, while you are conveyed through a series of disturbing and horrific scenes. Jack has been working as a caretaker in an isolated "Farm" hiding away from the world he has abandoned. The Farm is a place where clones (Spares) of the mega-rich and powerful are kept as the ultimate insurance policy - you lose an eye, ear or limb, you can get a replacement from your Spare. However when Jack starts to interact with the Spares he realises that they could have lives for themselves, so when one of them is due to be mutilated for the benefit of her double, Jack must go on the run with the Spares and confront the past of pain, loss and addiction he has been hiding from.

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A chillingly surreal, futuristic story pits Jack Randall, a guard at a prison work camp, who runs away with the inmates and finds himself pitted against a cold-blooded killer out to destroy them all.
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‘Comic, cruel, twisted and surreal’
EMPIRE

‘Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it’
DAVID BADDIEL

‘Tense, exciting and at times very, very funny... He’s worth every penny’
TIME OUT

‘Witty, hard-edged and coruscatingly imaginative... Compellingly off-kilter’
NEW SCIENTIST

‘Spares blurs imaginative surrealism and hard-bitten horror with a storytelling skill that can only be described as pure genius’
VENUE

‘A compulsively readable melding of hardboiled narrative and hardware invention’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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  • PublisherBantam USA
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 055310604X
  • ISBN 13 9780553106046
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages322
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Smith, Michael Marshall
Published by Bantam, New York, U.S.A. (1997)
ISBN 10: 055310604X ISBN 13: 9780553106046
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