Suppose for a moment you're Jack Randall. You're a loner, an ex-cop, the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All you've held dear has long ago been destroyed. For the last five years you've been hiding out on a spares farm, working at the only job that will still have you: guarding people who have never seen the outside world and can't even spell the word "escape." In short, your luck has run out.
You might think things couldn't get any worse. You'd be wrong. Because Jack Randall has a talent for attracting trouble: the kind most people run screaming
from. But Jack Randall is not most people. That's part of his trouble. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. All Jack wants to do is score enough money to disappear with his human contraband. But things aren't as simple as that. For Jack Randall, they never are.
Jack is on a head-on collision course with the man responsible for all this misery--a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all.
Now Jack has a decision to make: keep running or even the score? Either way spells more trouble. And when the ghosts of the past meet the terrors of the future, the result for Jack will be one hell of a scary ride.
Who are the spares? And what is their purpose? That is the most shocking revelation of 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
' Spares ' – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking.
' Spares ' – the story of Jack Randall: burnt – out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he can run fast enough.
' Spares ' – a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close on our own.
' Spares ' it’s fiction. But only just...
“ 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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