Richard Herley was born in England in 1950 and educated at Watford Boys' Grammar School and Sussex University, where his interest in natural history led him to read biology. However, since graduating he has devoted himself to writing.
His first published novel was The Stone Arrow (1978), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, administered by the Royal Society of Literature in London. This was the first in a trilogy. The trilogy was followed by The Penal Colony (1987), which formed the basis of the 1994 movie No Escape, starring Ray Liotta. Since then he has self-published.
He lives in north Norfolk and his interests include birding, botany, cycling, and walking by the sea.
It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails.
Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. To Sert, one afternoon in July, is brought Anthony John Routledge, sentenced for a sex-murder he did not commit. Routledge knows he is here for ever. And he knows he must quickly forget the rules of civilized life. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all ...
Título : The Penal Colony
EAN : 9781452310831
Editorial : Richard Herley
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