Enclave - Couverture souple

Reed, Kit

 
9780765321626: Enclave
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0765321629 ISBN 13 : 9780765321626
Editeur : Tor, 2010

Synopsis

The world is in chaos: war, plague, global ecological collapse. Seeking sanctuary for their children, parents enrol them in the elite Clothos Academy. Run by a mysterious man known only as Sarge, set in a former monastery atop a sheer cliff on a tiny island, Clothos will admit only one hundred children before it is sealed off - perhaps permanently - from the terrors outside. These precious, protected children are hardly the best and the brightest: empty-headed, anorexia-thin 'starlets'; troublemakers barely one step ahead of the law; cast-off junior royals too embarrassing to be let out in public. The staff isn't much better, from the alcoholic doctor and lovelorn guidance counsellor to a teacher with a lust for power and an ancient monk with secrets of his own. The dangers from which these castaways are being protected? Stored on hundreds of DVDs, ready to be trotted out whenever Sarge needs to terrify his little flock. And yet...Two boys discover there are real dangers beyond Clothos' thick stone walls when they hack the Academy's self-contained computer network and connect, for a brief but disastrous moment, to the outside world. Worse, a stranger has penetrated the Academy's defences. And he has brought Death.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The world is in chaos: war, plague, global ecological collapse. Seeking sanctuary for their children, parents enrol them in the elite Clothos Academy. Run by a mysterious man known only as Sarge, set in a former monastery atop a sheer cliff on a tiny island, Clothos will admit only one hundred children before it is sealed off perhaps permanently from the terrors outside. These precious, protected children are hardly the best and the brightest: empty-headed, anorexia-thin starlets ; troublemakers barely one step ahead of the law; cast-off junior royals too embarrassing to be let out in public. The staff isn't much better, from the alcoholic doctor and lovelorn guidance counsellor to a teacher with a lust for power and an ancient monk with secrets of his own. The dangers from which these castaways are being protected? Stored on hundreds of DVDs, ready to be trotted out whenever Sarge needs to terrify his little flock. And yet.... Two boys discover there are real dangers beyond Clothos thick stone walls when they hack the Academy's self-contained computer network and connect, for a brief but disastrous moment, to the outside world. Worse, a stranger has penetrated the Academy's defences. And he has brought Death.

Revue de presse

Far more than a typical disaster novel. Publishers Weekly, starred review --Publishers Weekly

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Éditeur
Tor
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0765321629
ISBN 13 
9780765321626
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
PILOT CORPORATION OF EUROPE
https://www.pilotpen.de/

PAE DE LA CAILLE
ALLONZIER LA CAILLE
France

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ISBN 10 :  0765321610 ISBN 13 :  9780765321619
Editeur : Tor Books, 2009
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