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Pretty Boy Red
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- Book Synopsis
- Child prisoner Joel Brady is facing trial for murder. If he can survive that long. 'Vivid, complex, hard-hitting and compelling' Ray Robinson In the juvenile wing of a prison in Western Australia, fourteen-year-old Joel Brady - small, girly-voiced, nicknamed 'Psycho' - is awaiting trial for his role as sidekick to child abductor Marcus Welby. Joel still isn't sure what he did that last day at Welby's outback house of horror; his memory has blotted it out. Is his mind playing tricks in other respects too? Did he really see the malevolent Quentin, another of Welby's associates, in the adult wing of the prison? Or is Quentin a figment of his imagination, as Joel's lawyers insist? A more immediate priority is hiding from the rampaging cons who have escaped the adult wing, one of whom wants Joel's head. Will his cellmate Glenn, an arch-enemy who has become his first real friend, stay loyal? Set in an ultra-violent, alpha-male world where human connection is a double-edged sword, and interwoven with a gripping courtroom drama in which the truth about Welby's chilling set-up gradually emerges, this powerful literary thriller marks the debut of a remarkable talent.
- About The Author
- Derek Byrne was born in London. He has studied fiction-writing with the University of East Anglia, Curtis Brown and the Faber Academy. Pretty Boy Red is his first novel. Under his real name Paul Baird, he is an academic specializing in quantum information theory. He has degrees from Warwick and Oxford, and has held posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Western Brittany in France.
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- ISBN
- 9781785634512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Lightning Books, (24 November 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 22 mm
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