Halfhead
There are worse things than the death penalty...
They call them halfheads: Convicted criminals, surgically mutilated and lobotomised by the State, then sent out do menial jobs in the community so everyone will know what happens when you break the law. There are no appeals, no reprieves, and no one ever comes back. Until now.
Dr Fiona Westfield, one of the most prolific serial killers Glasgow has ever seen, is waking up. Surrounded by blood and death and darkness. And she wants revenge.
William Hunter has risen through the ranks since putting Westfield away; now he's Assistant Network Director, in charge of tech-crimes and police actions. Then a routine murder investigation uncovers an appalling conspiracy.
The vast connurb blocks on Glasgow's deprived south side are about to explode: eleven years ago the VR riots killed millions - now someone wants to start them all over again. And Will is being dragged back into a past he desperately wants to forget.
HALFHEAD is what I like to call a 'Near-Future Thriller'.
Why? Well because there's a weird thing that happens with crime fiction... If you write a kidnap story set in ancient Rome, it's Historical Crime Fiction. If you write a murder set in Elizabethan England, it's Historical Crime Fiction. If you write a bank robbery in the Victorian era: Historical Crime Fiction. WWII serial killer: Historical Crime Fiction. Write a sex offender case set now, it's Crime Fiction. Set the same crime 20 years into the future and suddenly it's SCIENCE FICTION!!! RUN AWAY!!! And a lot of readers won't even try it.
There's something about a book set in the future that makes them think of aliens, space ships, and pasty teenagers living in their parents' basements... So I call Halfhead a near-future thriller to try and encourage people to give it a go.
And that's an approach that didn't go down too well with some sections of the Sci-Fi establishment.
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