In a governmental Punishment and Protection center, Charge Nurse Landon is wondering why one of the new inductees seems familiar. Meanwhile Chief Inspector Duncan is driving home from a stakeout in Liverpool. When the two men's destinies meet, the result is a complex mystery with a political edge.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition book and DJ not price clipped. 288 pages good and clean with clear print. Minor foxing on edge of pages. No foxing on end papers. No stamp page. 'The five thousand inmates in Justice City, flagship of the government's new Punishment and Protection centres, are administered by just three hundred prison officers (a uniquely cost-effective ratio). The City's 0rogrammes - EAT (Extreme Audio-frequency Treatment) and LTI (Long Term Incarceration) - are both non-labour-intensive, and there's no doubt that they are vote-winners. Frontispiece: shows an outlay of Justice /City Punishments Building. Seller Inventory # 011391
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket ''.D. G. Compton has given us a brilliantly complex mystery, set ten minutes into the future, and with a hard political edge. ''. Book. Seller Inventory # 107230
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased. Page block is lightly blemished. On the title page, name of publisher has been overstamped to indicate change. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 546403
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Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Near future sf novel. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Seller Inventory # 00384
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