Spares

Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own… 'Spares' – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking. 'Spares' – the story of Jack Randall: burnt – out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference…if he can run fast enough. 'Spares' – a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close on our own. 'Spares' it’s fiction. But only just… “ Comic, cruel, twisted and surreal.”EMPIRE “Some books stretch the imagination.This one mugs it.”DAVID BADDIEL “Tense, exciting and at times very, very funny…He’s worth every penny.”TIME OUT “Witty, hard – edged and coruscatingly imaginative…Compellingly off – kilter.”NEW SCIENTIST “'Spares' blurs imaginative surrealism and hard – bitten horror with a storytelling skill that can only be described as pure genius.”'VENUE' “A compulsively readable melding of hardboiled narrative and hardware invention.”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own… Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking. Spares – the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference…if he can run fast enough. Spares – a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own. Spares – it’s fiction. But only just…