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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

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    A Paperback / softback by Marcel Theroux

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780571237784, 978-0571237784
      ISBN10: 0571237789

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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