Exit

Exit is a chilling dystopian novel in the Orwellian tradition, a story of ultimate control and ultimate delusion...

Anthony Laroche is an Exit Manager ? one of a hand-picked group of high grade civil servants tasked with the responsibility of upholding the latest amendments to the Terrorism Act. The Act ? through endless lobbying and astute politics ? has become a lethal yet legal toy for the government, its ultimate power resting in its ability to determine other people's fate. Anthony and his colleagues have the power to decide whether individuals or groups are still viable to society, and if not, how best to eliminate them.

Anthony takes his job seriously and executes it with meticulous precision and discriminate ease. Yet his past has a habit of disturbing his cold-steel cynicism and quiet efficiency. When he decides to use the act for his own covert devices ? to track down and condemn his missing father ? he inadvertently becomes the administrator of his own downfall.

Frank Alexander's compelling novel is a prescient and highly contemporary exploration of surveillance society, the corruption of power, political spin and personal freedom?