Prisoner Logo 'Who is Number Two?'
by David McDaniel
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He was free - within the Village

Free to busy himself or to do nothing. Free to socialise or to keep himself to himself. Free to ask questions and listen to the gently plausible answers.

Free even to try to escape. But not to leave. The Guardians saw to that. Intercepted him and shepherded him back, carefully but firmly, to be reprimanded more in sorrow than anger. Left him to try again and fail again.

Why? Why this tolerance of his endless attempts to get away?

Was he, unwittingly, doing just what they wanted? Continuously testing out the defences, showing up the weak spots. Were all his probings and schemings simply improving the security of their system?

Would giving up be the only true rebellion he could muster?


Released in U.K. by:
New English Library

Release Date:
1982

Notes:
*Featuring 'Number Six'

*Originally released in U.K. in 1981 in hardback by Dobson Books Ltd.


*Re-released in U.K. in 1992 by Boxtree:



HOME SWEET HOME - IN THE VILLAGE?

The man known as "Number 6" had been a top-level agent until he had suddenly and mysteriously resigned from his post. Then, just as inexplicably, he had been kidnapped and held prisoner in a sinister fairy tale Village where electronic eyes monitored his every move.

Time after time he had escaped, but each time he had been brought back. Yet still his he persisted in his attempts to be a free man, with a determination and ingenuity that his captors had never seen before. How long could they hold him there?

Unless, somehow the Prisoner might come to enjoy life in his prison...