Kirjahaku

In seventy years’ time, you will still be able to recognise the Britain of today. But there will be significant differences, posing the question, “If it’s like that then, what is it now that takes us there?” Pee-Bee and Prudence, both in their late teens, confront some alarming issues when Pee-Bee’s grandfather, Stevie, disappears under suspicious circumstances. They had thought he was going to end his days, eased towards death in one of the state-of-the-art Sunset Dream Homes. Determined to discover what has happened to Stevie, their investigations take Pee-Bee and Prudence to south-west France and the Institut de Gétontologie, where cutting-edge medical advances harvest and transplant memories for commercial and political purposes. Following a daring raid on the institute, supported by the enigmatic Melchizedek, they confront not only their own circumstances and motivation but also some of the fundamental principles underpinning society. Stevie’s involvement in a tragic incident, decades earlier, and revelations about his own father oblige Pee-Bee to face up to the way the forgotten past can haunt the present while still offering hope. He emerges from this emotional ordeal strengthened, challenged and disturbed. Fall-out from these events is picked up in The Net, Soft Apocalypse Book II.

In Redeemed from Time, Pee-Bee sheds the burden of his family’s past. A new life beckons. But Clean, an emerging populist party, and the Euphoria Church are challenging the status quo, triggering civil unrest across the nation. In London, rival gangs battle to secure their territory. Pee-Bee is drawn into the turmoil when, having witnessed a failed terrorist attack, he has to go into hiding for his own protection. That means, once again and against his better judgment, calling on Melchizedek for advice and direction. As before, Pee-Bee finds himself confronting Sir Roderick Nugent and Dr Calveyrac but the struggle ahead is of a different order to anything he has faced before. Instinct tells him his first responsibility is to himself. However, there are others who need rescuing, including a young boy with an extraordinary claim on Pee-Bee. As he navigates his way forward, Pee-Bee has to work out the difference between a net, which saves you when falling, and a trap.