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Barry, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444764683 ISBN 13: 9781444764680

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2014

Synopsis

Sticks and stones break bones.
Words kill.

They recruited Emily from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.

They'll live to regret it.

Wil survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember it.

Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.

There's a word, they say. It shouldn't have got out. But it did.

And they want it back...

Find out why in one of the most mind-bending, page-turning, thrilling novels you'll ever read.

*Winner of the Aurealis Award for science fiction and GoodReads Choice Awards finalist for best science fiction*

About this title

Review:

Brilliantly realised... strikingly relevant... a resounding success (SFX)

Highly entertaining and engrossing... characters that are both complicated and likeable (SciFi Now)

Gripping... a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon (Cory Doctorow BoingBoing)

Truly original... a crack-paced thriller... smart and tons of fun (Australian)

Barry's smartest dystopia yet (io9.com)

Sophisticated and laden with subtext... clearly reaffirms Barry's status as a gifted purveyor of suspense (Time Out New York)

Best thing I've read in a long, long time... a masterpiece (Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool)

Wonderfully crafted, dark yet humourous, fast-paced and tragic in turn (National)

An extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller (Lev Grossman Time)

Delightfully high-concept...think Noam Chomsky meets Christopher Nolan (Vogue)

Book Description:

Words are weapons, and one man is immune, in this dazzlingly original thriller from the author of Jennifer Government.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1444764683
• ISBN 13: 9781444764680
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400