The Prisoner - Softcover

Disch, Thomas M.

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450 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074344504X ISBN 13: 9780743445047

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

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He's a top-level agent, highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out, and they won't let him quit. He quits anyway. Then suddenly comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity, in a pleasant, old-style, seaside town - one packed solid with electronic surveillance hardware. This is The Village. And he is The Prisoner. If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top-flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who've chained his life to the wall?

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"[This novel is] closely based on the extraordinary TV series, far and away the finest thing the medium has done in this genre; while Disch himself is one of the best SF writers." - Observer

From the Back Cover:

'Be seeing you.'

This is the classic novel of the TV series The Prisoner, by acclaimed author Thomas M. Disch.

Combining the power of a great spy thriller with Orwellian science fiction, The Prisoner follows a former British secret agent who has quit the force, only to find himself trapped in an anonymous place called the Village.

Known only as 'Number 6,' he struggles to maintain his identity in the face of the nameless powers-that-be, who use increasingly terrifying methods to extract his secrets.

[IN BOX, WITH Caviezel/McKellen pics & TV series logo:]
First published in 1968, this new edition celebrates the long-awaited remake of The Prisoner by ITV1 and the producers of Mad Men, starring Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel

'Disch was one of the most remarkably talented writers'
Washington Post

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