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    The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories
    The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories
    The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories
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    The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories

    By Michael Smith

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    Four surreal stories with bizarre underpinnings and uncanny twists. “Roadblock” features a feckless architectural school graduate who falls in with a sixteen-year-old’s dubious trucking venture to the rural south, only to confront mystical construction strikers. In “Randy and Laura,” drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia, working a gas station night-shift with Laura, who longs to escape both his insane delusions and a trauma Randy isn’t equipped to understand. “Perpetual Starlit Night” explores an archeologist’s arrival on a tiny artificial gravity platform in deep space to give a scholarly lecture to barbarian colonists who declare her a criminal like themselves. Finally, “Damage Patrol” describes how the Conscious Reach Corporation proposes to cure an entire city’s mental illness, one tormented soul at a time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Smith
    Release dateDec 18, 2021
    ISBN9781005501419
    The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories
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    Michael Smith

    Michael Smith is an award-winning British journalist and author, having previously served in British military intelligence. He has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and is the author of fifteen books on spies and special operations, including the No 1 bestseller Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park. He lives in Henley-on-Thames.

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