Ivrrac (Acronym) - Softcover

Peter Robert Jordan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473154099 ISBN 13: 9780473154097

Publisher: Spyral Enterprises Limited, 2009

Synopsis

The world is changing, more people are being sent to prison than ever before. There is now an opening for privatised prisons and rehabilitation centres to relieve the government owned prisons of this ever increasing influx. A few years into the future a new firm known as IVRRAC gets approval from the New Zealand government to rehabilitate minor offenders. They have had a one hundred per cent success rate with thieves, small time drug sellers and extortionists; however their costs are hardly covered by what the government is willing to pay for their services. So when the government offers them an obscene amount of money to take Simon, a murderer of seven rich socialite women, they jump at the chance.

IVRRAC has never rehabilitated a murderer before so they are unsure about how successful their unique rehabilitation technique will be. Simon is also a vicious and insidious killer so they have to be very careful as they know their technique could fail. Do they keep him locked up in case of failure? No after processing Simon, to prove the technique works, they ship him out to the richest valley in New Zealand, Trentsworth, and immerse him into a society full of the people he has spent the last fourteen years murdering.

If Simon can spend six months in Trentsworth without killing one of the locals the technique has worked and he is a free man. Of course IVRRAC has men on the ground to catch him before any harm can befall his neighbours. Simon is well aware he is under surveillance and this increases his desire to escape the valley and IVRRAC's forever watchful eyes.

Through his ambition to escape he falls in love with Kyndrea his new next door neighbour whose father owns the only amphibian plane and means of escape in the valley. After a time he realises she could never love him back once she knew his history and he decides to use her solely for his escape. From the aftermath of his subsequent actions he discovers the secret of what the acronym IVRRAC stands for, the dark murderous secrets that IVRRAC itself has hidden away and the awful truth that Trentsworth is not at all what it seems.

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From the Back Cover

Simon, a convicted serial killer of the rich, undergoes treatment at the fledgling private criminal rehabilitation firm IVRRAC. Simon is then sent to the alpine village of Trentsworth, a town full of rich socialites, to ascertain whether he is cured of his murderous impulses or not. During his stay in Trentsworth, Simon falls in love with his neighbour, Kyndrea, the only child of a rich widower. After a time he realises there is no way she would be able to love him due to his past. Through this anguish he discovers that the rehabilitation process has failed and he is still able to exact his revenge with dramatic and unexpected results. During the aftermath of his actions he is informed what the anagram IVRRAC stands for and the awful truth that IVRRAC has its own dark secrets and Trentsworth is not at all what it seems.

"One mistake, one tiny error in that psych report, the treatment won't hold and that will spell disaster. Suicide, massacre or most likely both! I'll stay with him and watch events carefully, but I won't be held responsible."

From the Inside Flap

"A murderer?" Asked the dark haired one, "You think we can handle a serial killer?"
"I'm sure you can handle a serial killer, Andrew," was her reply.
"We cannot afford any mistakes, Christine,"
"You're right, Andrew, we cannot. But I've had a look at the psych assessment the judge ordered. If he's insane, then anyone who believes in any cause, from religion to saving the whales are insane. It's just that, unlike them, his beliefs are screwed. That's what IVRRAC is designed to fix, isn't it?"
"Screwed is putting it mildly." Andrew looked directly at Christine's eyes, "Murder is a lot different from thieving. You can't give back life. There's a big chance this guy is going to come out worse than he came in, but I warn you." Andrew got up to leave, just as he got to the door he turned around. "One mistake, one tiny error in that psych report,
the treatment won't hold and that will spell disaster; suicide or massacre, or most likely both! I'll stay with him and watch events carefully, but I won't be held responsible."

Edition details

• Publisher: Spyral Enterprises Limited
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0473154099
• ISBN 13: 9780473154097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374