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Man in the Middle
Franz Bergmann knows the deepest secrets of the residents in Block A19, but none of them know he exists. When the Federation Government collapses, ending its monitoring programme and casting Franz from his job and the only people he has ever known, he faces a stark move on, or find a way into the lives of the people he has watched for 30 years. Man in the Middle is a heartwarming take on the dystopian genre. It explores relationships, loss, and the struggle for friendship, as a redundant spy tries to become friends with the people he has been paid to report on for all of his working life. It is the debut novel of Yorkshire-based Welsh writer Karis Dowsell.
180 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 14, 2020
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June 14, 2020
A great concept, well executed. Man in the Middle takes a somewhat dark comic look at what happens to the nuts and bolts workers of an authoritarian regime when the regime collapses. The book zips along. Every scene delivers another issue to expose Franz's secret. Dowsell's dialogue is top class too.
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