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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Some of you might recognise Miller's name from stories published in TTA some time ago, but now he has a mass market novel out there: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Boys-James-Miller/dp/1408700883 "Lost Boys" is the 2nd best thing I've read this year (Ramsey's "Theiving Fear" taking 1st place), and I can't recommend it highly enough. An oil company worker in post-Saddam Iraq is kidnapped and when hE is returned to his family, and they go back to England, his teenage son goes missing. What follows is an incredibly unnerving, and very relevant, study of what might happen if the well-educated middle class youth of today decided they'd had enough of the world their parents helped create. By turns sinister, passionate and insightful, the novel enters some pretty dark territory and marks out Miller as a writer to make waves in the future. |