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      The Guard

      by Peter Terrin; David Colmer
      Published
      Jan 2015
      Main Genre
      Dystopian Dystopian
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      272
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      Isolation, terror, paranoia. Two guards in a luxury apartment block stick to their posts while the world collapses around them.

      'A mix of psychological thriller and SF fable, this is a strange, wonderfully claustrophobic novel' John O'Connell, Guardian. (Guardian)

      Harry and Michel are stationed in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the 1%. Until all the residents leave - apart from a man on floor 29.

      Harry and Michel stick to their posts. The world might be at war, plunged into nuclear winter or decimated by a disease; they may be the last inhabitants in the city. All they know is that if they are vigilant, 'the organisation' will reward them: promotion to an elite cadre of security officers remains their goal, and their days are punctuated by vivid dreams of everything they are missing.

      But what if there were no-one left to guard? And if the promised third officer arrives, how will he fit into Michel and Harry's studied routine of boredom and paranoia?

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      General Fiction Speculative Fiction

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      Dystopian Literary Science Fiction

      Themes

      Apocalypse Post-Apocalyptic

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