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Cages

by David Mark
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A dark past. A terrifying secret. A deadly game is about to begin . . .
Washed-up author Rufus Orton needs money. It's the main reason he takes the gig teaching creative writing to inmates at HMP Holderness. That, and the flattery of prison officer Annabeth Harris, who contacted him out of the blue and begged him to take the job.
Annabeth loves Rufus' work. Genuinely. She loves being a prison officer too. But Annabeth is keeping a secret. Fifteen years ago she did something bad, and if it ever comes out, her new, perfect life will be destroyed.
HMP resident Griffin Cox has no black marks against his name. He claims he's been wrongly convicted of the sex offence that put him in prison. He's lying. He has a plan - and everything hinges on him securing a place in the classroom with Rufus and Annabeth. It's only then that the game can begin . . .
Dark, twisted and gripping, CAGES is an addictive psychological thriller from a "master" of the genre (Kirkus Reviews). If you enjoy disturbing, charismatic criminals like Hannibal Lector and Patrick Bateman, you'll love Griffin Cox.

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    May 1, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781448305186

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      • ISBN: 9781448305186
      • File size: 1706 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      August 20, 2021
      Such a jolly opening for such a grim tale. English author Rufus Orton reminds one of a Kingsley Amis creation: witty, aging, boozy, overweight--"can't see where you stop and the armchair begins"--with creditors banging on the door. Salvation of a sort appears when Rufus is offered a gig teaching writing at a nearby prison. Then the fun's over. Annabeth, the prison staffer in charge of the program, is hiding a very dark past. One of the prisoners--a cruelly evil man named Cox--is on to it and uses the writing sessions to torment her. As the novel moves ever so slowly to its overpowering finale, the prose almost invites the reader to feel its texture. Good lines abound. A man's eyes are ""vague insinuations of impenetrable darkness."" There's a creepy sense, too, that the characters, good or bad., are parts of the same society, like analysts and analysands or cops and crooks. Poor Rufus is the lone outsider and what happens to him...well, one way or another, that's what happens to outsiders.

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