SuitabookFreedom under powerful rule
Portobello is under Nebula’s powerful rule; Kai, Phoebe and Phoenix become involved in escape, pursuit and resistance.
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Neil Arksey - Author
A fast-moving speculative thriller about genetically modified young people, authoritarian power and escape. It combines a flood-threatened future with assassination, secret-police pursuit and freedom-fighter conflict, while placing Kai’s changing loyalties and Phoebe’s relationship with him at the centre.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA fast-moving speculative thriller about genetically modified young people, authoritarian power and escape. It combines a flood-threatened future with assassination, secret-police pursuit and freedom-fighter conflict, while placing Kai’s changing loyalties and Phoebe’s relationship with him at the centre.
Portobello is under Nebula’s powerful rule; Kai, Phoebe and Phoenix become involved in escape, pursuit and resistance.
Kai, Phoebe and Phoenix have modified genes, and Phoebe and Phoenix escape from a protected compound or laboratory where experimentation takes place.
Kai is trained or employed as an assassin; militia hunt freedom fighters; Phoenix is described as bloodthirsty and dies during the escape.
Give particular attention to death and danger: Phoenix dies in a ferocious whirlpool, Kai works as a hired assassin, and militia and terrorist-like violence are discussed. The flood and storm-wave escape also create sustained peril.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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