Summary
Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need - food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. Only then do they begin to realise that they’ve brought with them rather more than they bargained for. For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841495101 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841495107 |
| Author: | K.J. Parker |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 201mm x 31mm |
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Skilful plotting and rich scene-setting … leaves the reader wanting more - The Guardian
About The Author
K.J. Parker
Having worked in the journalism and the law, K. J. Parker now writes and makes things out of wood and metal.
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