The Cold War ended thirty years ago, the Communists have won in Europe and the world has settled into two blocks divided by a silicon curtain, The Partition.
The tranquil backwater of the People's Republic of Britain is due to host an international sporting event, the Games, and celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the country becoming a republic. When the organiser of the Games dies suddenly and his office is broken into, Barrow, the retired security operative enlisted to investigate, is drawn into a conspiracy that has implications not only for him and his team of young and inexperienced assistants, but for their entire way of life.
How is the American research student Julia Verona implicated? Is some kind of attack being planned? Who is really in command of the operation? Is there a double agent within the PRBs security apparatus? What is the significance of the reclusive novelist Vernon Crane?
Fusing the trappings of a literary thriller with experimental style, Eminent Domain explores the art, culture, politics, personalities, conflicts, loves and losses of a range of boldly realised characters in a Utopian world radically different to our own but recognizably the way that things, at one time, might have been.
A kaleidoscopic satire of our present moment, Eminent Domain is both a dark thriller and a radical neo-modernist experiment that probes at the limits of Utopia, a formally dazzling reimagining of the political novel in which lives, worlds and even realities collide to devastating effect.
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"Sound art, free beer and acid communism meet in Carl Neville's brilliantly imagined political thriller." "Eminent Domain combines the readerly pleasure derived from a murder mystery's narrative drive with the intellectual stimulation of witnessing ideas denied by capitalism given life in fiction, similar to the philosophical science fictions of Le Guin or China Mieville."
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978-1-912248-84-1 (9781912248841)
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Carl Neville has been writing fiction for over twenty years. His first novel, Jessica: A Cautionary Tale was written while taking an MA in creative writing in 1998. He self-published two further novels - White Diaspora and Three Men, One Room. From 2006 onwards he was part of an influential critical blogging community, and was involved with a series of popular blogs on the 70s, 80s and 90s. He published two non.fiction books on film and the cultural history of two decades with Zer0 - the British 90s in Classless, and the American 70s in No More Heroes.
