The 26th Protocol (Tim Heath Stand-Alone Thrillers Collection) - Softcover

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Everyone is tattooed at birth with the date they will die.

Six digits, above the right ear. Calculated from your genetics, your family's medical history, and whatever else the System decides. You grow up knowing the number. So does everybody else.

On that date, you hand in your shirt, receive a Gold-Collar, and are given one million units to spend in the twelve months you have left. It is called your Jubilee Year. It is the most celebrated day of your life.

Then you die, on schedule, and the world thanks you for it.

Herbert Bradley has spent thirty years teaching children that this is honourable. On the morning his own date arrives, surrounded by colleagues raising a glass to him, he realises he does not believe a single word of it.

Blythe Harrell is next in line to run the world. Third-generation elite, personally chosen by the Supreme Commander, untouchable — until a scan shows the daughter his wife is carrying has one of six diseases the System cannot cure, and the machine he was raised to inherit condemns her to forty years.

There is one scientist close to a cure.

She is booked onto a flight that Blythe knows, with absolute certainty, is going to fall out of the sky.

Because one aircraft crashes every year. It has done for thirty years. It has never once been an accident — and everybody who matters knows exactly why.

He picks up the phone. It takes him nine seconds to end his own career, and rather longer to work out what he has started.

From the author of The Hunt series.

For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and George Orwell's 1984.

"A brilliant and believable dystopia, a 21st century version of 1984 or Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale."

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