Robert Exley works for the Faculty: he spends his life making sure
that nothing ever happens. In counter-terrorism, that’s your job.
But something’s going on. His wife, Mary, also worked at the
Faculty. She’s been dead for years, but somehow she’s never far
away. His father worked there, too, and spent a lifetime on a
mountaintop watching out for signals, hoping not to see them. His
bookish teenage son, Stephen, writes an encrypted journal Exley feels
obliged to decode, to read the things they cannot talk about. Lately
it’s all about the boy’s grandfather. And even if it’s mostly
fiction, Exley knows there’s only one end to that story. The Faculty
of Indifference is a comedy about counter-terrorism, torture, boredom,
suicide and death by natural causes. Trapped between the memory of an
intolerable past and the anticipation of so much worse to come, Exley
finds there’s nothing he can do but live.
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9781784631772
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2019
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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