About This Book
It’s the not-too-distant future. Britain’s overcrowded prison system is in meltdown. Those in power have a stark choice: spend a huge amount of tax-payers’ money on new prisons and prison staff, or… John Heston, incarcerated for the brutal murder of his wife’s lover, is given an unexpected chance of freedom. An experimental new type of prison sentence is being tested and John has been short-listed to take part in the live trial. If successful, he could be free within the week… Using cutting-edge technology which works by manipulating the brainwaves of the subject to the extent that they not only believe that they are in prison, they can actually smell, taste, feel, hear and see that they are. But the experience is accelerated, so the 12 years he serves in his head will in reality only be 24 hours. And then they’ll let him out.... But when it all goes wrong and he finds himself escaping from that prison, just where does he escape to, and who are these people who have escaped with him? Discussions abound, arguments fly, the pros and cons are examined as the nation searches its’ conscience on the matter and one determined reporter gets a lot more than he bargained for when he starts to dig deeper into the background of this new technology.
