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'"Dan liked Rolston and Rolston liked Dan, they were made for one another. After the shootout at the House of Freedom five years before, where Mick had been arrested after killing nearly everyone in the brothel, life had settled into a very pleasant groove. Dan was a hero, no doubt. The genuine article who had single-handedly faced off with one of the most evil killers the country had ever known. He'd been decorated, interviewed and had his story told innumerable times in print and television. There was whisper of a movie, along the Dirty Harry line, even a franchise. He could have moved on; he could have retired. It was made known that he could even go into politics, but Dan liked it just the way it was, and announced that he was staying where he'd served with such dignity and dedication for so many years, right there in Rolston."

'The eagerly awaited sequel to Babylon, described by the Age as a "high-octane psychological suspense," The Captive picks up where Babylon left off, with Mick in his fifth year of a life sentence for multiple murders and about to be made an offer too hard to refuse by the policemen who put him there.

'Set in a world of ecological disaster and political corruption, The Captive continues the story as Mick is thrown back into the chaos to fight for his life and a future he isn't even sure he deserves.

'With writing as reminiscent of "Camus's The Outsider as it is the novels of Cormac McCarthy", The Captive propels the reader into a future already too close for comfort and a world too real to avoid.

'The Captive - If you're not fighting, you're already dead.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.