Ebook {Epub PDF} The Facility by Simon Lelic

Simon Lelic is the author of The Liar's Room, The House (a Radio 2 Book Club choice and Observer Thriller of the Month), Rupture (winner of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the John Creasy New Blood Dagger, as well as the Galaxy Book Awards), The Facility and The Child Who (longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger ).4/5(20). ‘Lelic’s second novel (the follow-up to his well-received Rupture, about a school massacre) follows journalist Tom Clarke as he investigates the fate of several people arrested under repressive new anti-terror legislation and taken to a mysterious government “facility” This Orwellian set-up allows for several scenes of nightmarish strangeness. Would you try another book written by Simon Lelic or narrated by Paul Panting? I thought Simon Lelic's first novel, Rupture, was exceptional but I couldn't get on with The Facility at all. So much is left for the reader to figure out over time - especially when it comes to what the Facility is and why it exists - .

By Simon Lelic. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. But when unassuming dentist Arthur Priestley is snatched and held prisoner at a top-secret facility, his estranged wife, Julia, and a brave but naive journalist named. When dentist Arthur Priestley winds up in a cell in a strange facility. Simon Lelic. Penguin, $15 trade paper (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. The Facility. Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, losing his marriage and sacrificing his relationship with his daughter in the process. He is used to being uprooted, to dealing with angry and embittered prisoners, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings.

Simon Lelic is the author of The Liar's Room, The House (a Radio 2 Book Club choice and Observer Thriller of the Month), Rupture (winner of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the John Creasy New Blood Dagger, as well as the Galaxy Book Awards), The Facility and The Child Who (longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger ). As well as being an unputdownable thriller The Facility is a book with something to say about the price any country and its citizens must pay for security. However Lelic never lectures us and when we reach a tense confrontation on a railway platform in the last chapter readers will be checking their increased pulse rate rather than their consciences' Daily Express. Simon Lelic is a British author who has written the books Rupture, The Facility and The Child Who. Biography. Simon Lelic (/ ˈ l ɛ l ɪ tʃ / LELL-itch) Journalism. jonathan ) okey) ) References.