THE DETANIEE by Peter Liney is a post-modern tale of the effects of the downfall of our society. It is a story of desperation and triumphs, both in the light and the dark.
Clancy the "Big Guy" not only shows us his fear of what lurks in the fog, but also shows us the fear we have in ourselves of getting old. Clancy and his friends live in a world where society has removed the elderly, and the children for that matter. When the daunting fog rolls in lives are changed and many are lost. More than anything though, there is a fight against all of the things that have plagued their society. With the help of those who Clancy would have never sought help from, the fog may be about to break.
THE DETAINEE will keep you guessing from the start. Peter Liney so cleverly hides incredibly difficult things within this story. I cannot believe the turns it takes, but am ever so pleased in where it goes. THE DETAINEE covers gruesome acts of violence, yet strays from gory details; Peter Liney is a description genius. He even covers rather intimate scenes without exposing the intimacy; instead he evokes such emotion, that I felt each drip and ounce of love.
THE DETAINEE is definitely a book that should be read by all.
Peter Liney honed his strong narrative skills and
attention
to detail during his long career as a writer of German,
Australian, British, and South African television and
radio
programs. In his debut novel, The Detainee, Liney has
crated
a dystopian world in which the state has gone bust and can
no longer support its weakest members.
The Island is a place of hopelessness. The Island is
death.
And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm
are
shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society.
Thereβs
no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver
instant judgment for any crimeβincluding escape attemptsβ
and
not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the
satellites are all but blind. But when one of the Islandβs
inhabitants, the aging "Big Guy" Clancy, finds a network
of
tunnels beneath the waste, there is suddenly hopeβfor
love,
for escape, and for the chance to fight back.
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