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The Angel of Death

The Angel of Death

The Angel of Death

Molly Cutpurse

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2019
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780244186173
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The Angel of Death is a bleak and fictional account of the United Kingdom?s prison system.When terrorists commit an act of genocide resulting in the deaths of over eleven thousand Londoners, the Prime Minister, under pressure of intense social media, announces a new government initiative as the death penalty is no longer practicable.The new legislation called, the Safe Limitation Act is rushed through Parliament and a woman neurosurgeon is employed to run the scheme. But however successful the program, she is eventually betrayed by the government, rejected by her family and spurned by her friends, undergoing the most consequential counteraction by the population in living memory.

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