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The Captive
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ISBN10: 164129728X
ISBN13: 9781641297288
Publisher: Hell's Hundred
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781641297288
Publisher: Hell's Hundred
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
From a new voice in horror comes a satirical Rosemary's Baby for our conspiratorial present in which anti-capitalist activists unwittingly unleash terrifying demonic forces when they kidnap a pregnant heiress. From Ned Beauman, the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Teleportation Accident and Clarke Award-winning author of Venomous Lumpsucker. For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping twenty-three-year-old Adeline Woolsaw, heiress to a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centers, and prisons.
But the revolutionaries get a shock when they bundle Adeline into their van. She's about to go into labor. And she may not object to being kidnapped, if it allows her and the baby to escape her despotic parents. Her parents are the ones who made a deal with an ancient evil of nearly limitless power. Now the Woolsaws and their henchmen will stop at nothing to get the infant back, so they can establish an infernal new kingdom on Earth with their grandchild on the throne. Kit Burgoyne (pen name of Booker-listed author Ned Beauman) is a ruthlessly funny new voice in horror: witty, appalling, and as adept at skewering today's plutocratic overlords as he is at conjuring our most primeval nightmares.
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