Edge - Softcover

Blackthorne, Thomas

3.44

197 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857660403 ISBN 13: 9780857660404

Publisher: Angry Robot, 2010

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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.

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Features Cumberland, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter's condition is brilliantly portrayed. In this title, the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation.

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

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