Description
In a near-future Britain where water has become a commodity, a nurse, a young boy, and a dying woman—along with her marksman husband—find their lives colliding amid protests, displacement, and the brutal arithmetic of survival. As climate change tightens its grip, each character’s choices ripple outward, revealing how quickly care, loyalty, and violence can be repurposed by a collapsing system. Threaded through the story is the presence of John Branner, an armed policeman assigned to guard the train that brings water from the source—an assignment that turns duty into a moral trap. With Cynan Jones’s sharp, atmospheric prose and a talent for interlocking human lives, *Stillicide* explores themes of scarcity, complicity, and the thin line between protection and harm in a world running out of time.
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paperback
Catapult
Published Jan 1, 2020
176 pages
ISBN: 9781646220137
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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