339 pages ; 24 cm
Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career - and his life - is turned upside down by the arrival of Julia Priestley, who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, Arthur, an innocent dentist who has been arrested under severe new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit they have taken him but will not say where he is being held - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates those at the very top of government, Tom and Julia begin a quest to find Arthur, and the truth about his incarceration. But some people will stop at nothing to keep the facility's secret hidden, and soon the couple find themselves fighting for their lives ..
Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career - and his life - is turned upside down by the arrival of Julia Priestley, who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, Arthur, an innocent dentist who has been arrested under severe new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit they have taken him but will not say where he is being held - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates those at the very top of government, Tom and Julia begin a quest to find Arthur, and the truth about his incarceration. But some people will stop at nothing to keep the facility's secret hidden, and soon the couple find themselves fighting for their lives ..

Simon Lelic

Macmillan Publishers Limited

Macmillan Education UK

Campbell Books Ltd

London: Mantle

Pan MacMillan

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Export ed, 2022

1, 2011

The original book is printed faintly.

[curator]associate-francis-boyer@archive.org[/curator][date]20180604203123[/date]

Henry Graves har viet sitt liv til fengselsvesenet, men har er uforberedt på utfordringene som venter ham da han får et spesielt oppdrag; å administrere et hemmelig avsidesliggende fengsel. Henrys nye tilværelse preges av forvirrede og redde fanger, den uhyggelige Dr. Silke og sin egen samvittighetskamp. I mellomtiden sliter den naive journalisten Tom Clarke med sine egne problemer. Han har lovet Julia Priestley å finne hennes fraskilte ektemann, en uskyldig tannlege som har blitt arrestert med bakgrunn i ny anti-terror lovgivning. Myndighetene innrømmer å ha han i sin varetekt, men vil ikke opplyse om hvor eller hvorfor. Tom og Julia finner et spor som kan gi dem svar på hvorfor han ble fengslet, men de oppdager snart at noen er villige til å gjøre alt for å holde fengselet skjult for omverdenen

2023-06-28