Far North

Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city.Out on the far northern border of a failed state Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Into this cold isolated world comes evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere - a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest whose existence inspires Makepeace to take to the road to reconnect with human society. What Makepeace finds is a world unravelling stockaded villages enforcing a rough and uncertain justice mysterious slave camps labouring to harness the little understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace''s journey also leads to unexpected human contact tenderness and the dark secrets behind this frozen world.FAR NORTH leads the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape from humanity''s origins to its likely end. Bleak haunting spare - and yet ultimately hopeful the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world''s fragility and beauty and its unexpected ability to recover from our worst trespasses.