Pattern Black
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4.1 • 10 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind.
Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw's father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival's privately-run prison, HRO22.
Now Mason is following in his father's footsteps — he's an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag.
Chamber Therapy promises the miracle of criminal rehabilitation, curing prisoners of their criminal tendencies. But the flip-side of Chamber Therapy's success is its ultimate failure: Pattern Black — the total disintegration of identity that drives the prisoner insane.
Worse, Revival seems to be hiding what happens to the prisoners once they go Pattern Black.
As Mason makes his way through his new reality, a mysterious Preacher seems to haunt his every move. His only hope is Immunity, a rebel group led by a hacker named Calliope, who's trying to fight the system from inside.
Can Mason find the truth — and expose the dark secret behind Chamber Therapy — before Revival finds a way to shut him up forever?
It's Escape from New York meets The Matrix in this fast-paced, heart-pounding SciFi thriller by best-selling authors Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt.
Johnny B. Truant is also the author of Fat Vampire, a new television series coming to the SyFy channel in 2022.
Customer Reviews
One of the most compelling stories I’ve read
Imagine ‘Inception’ smashed through ‘The Running Man’ into ‘The Matrix’ taking ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ with it and you’ve got some approximation of the setting.
A page turner from the beginning, deliberately complex and confusing to make the reader do some work. That might not work for everyone but I love that style of writing - gradually revealing the plot and what’s going on, rather than throwing it all out there from the start.
Characters are well developed and the plot is sound, it deals quite well with emotional and mental health issues and has some lovely wisdom between the lines if you’re open to accepting it.
Some good references to the overall canon of sci-fi that’s currently out there with some extra tweaks and new ideas or perspectives.
It gathers pace throughout and has several epic climaxes of frenetic activity. Right towards the end there were a couple of moments where I thought it was time to resolve things, but all the pieces were necessary and it does click together neatly without actually dragging.
Some really good twists and surprises here and there make for a Ford book that I sacrificed a lot of sleep over - it was that compelling.
Great work, very enjoyable and glad that it’s a stand alone, not sure I could have dealt with the tension of any sequels.
Absolute pageturner
I couldn’t put it down , really enjoyable and fast paced, somewhat reminiscent of Inception but easier to follow! Engaging characters and lots of twists to keep you guessing. I could see this as a fab TV series!