Publication: Jonathan Cape, 1994, London
First edition. Fine in dust jacket. The story is set in the Green River State Penitentiary, where Dr. Ray Klein, a wrongly convicted orthopedic surgeon, has just been granted his parole. Insane warden, John Campbell Hobbes, plants the seeds for an uprising by manipulating existing racial and sexual tensions. On the day before Klein's release, for the first time in over a hundred years the prison falls into the hands of the inmates!
Inventory Number: 2012