Deep

By Elisabeth Laurence

 Deep
 

This isn't the world anyone knows anymore. It's only been two generations since the big war that wiped out most of humanity. Four countries—four governments—are all that's left. They decide things for you now, down to what you eat. Lyra lives in that world. She doesn't remember anything else. One strange man is set on showing her the difference between bought peace and stolen freedom, and he won't rest until she knows the secret truths of this new world.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Hanger
• Release date: Aug 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9780525537908

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Deep

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Elisabeth Laurence

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Chapter 1

About two generations ago, there was a war. It was so devastating that nearly two-thirds of the Earth's population died. Humanity was almost wiped out. What's left now is very strictly regulated. After the war ended, all of the remaining leaders got together and set up a new set of laws for everyone who survived. There are no more wars, no more armies. You can’t really say humanity is truly at peace, but it is peaceful now.

Now the governments decide just about everything for you. They decide what job you'll do, what school you'll go to, even what meals you'll eat every day. They're able to do it now that the world is so small and smaller still split between the four remaining countries: the Republic of China, Amerandia (formerly known as Canada), Japan, and Brazil. Those were the places left most untouched by the war, and so that’s where everyone flocked to when it ended.

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Lyra was one of those who moved to Amerandia before the war was over, when it was still just Canada. She and her family moved there from what was the United States to get away from the fighting. It was pretty bad down there, and her brother had gotten killed in the war trying to fight for the States. Two years later, the war ended, and the new laws were put into place. Everyone was affected by them, not just those who would be born under the laws, which the governments said the rules mostly affected. They asked for everyone's cooperation, and as soon as the public relented, the governments grasped with an iron fist and didn't let go.

Lyra was very young then, and now she was nearing the age to marry that had been set by the new laws. She'd already been given the name and face of the man she was going to marry long ago, and they'd spoken on more than one occasion. That was one of the benefits of this new system. Even if you didn't know who you were going to marry, you knew their name and what they looked like, and you had the option to contact them before the marriage date if you wanted. She chose to, wanting to get to know who she was supposed to marry. Now that date was three months away.

They'd even met a few times, gone on dates and the like. She actually liked him quite a bit. He was nice and sweet, and paid attention to the little things

Reviews for Deep

[davewilde-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is without question Spillane's ultimate masterpiece. It is well- written, appropriately paced, perfectly plotted, and tougher and more hardboiled than any other book out there. If you live and breathe hard-edged, hard-boiled stories, you will find yourself gasping for air as you turn these pages. It is that good.

It is a not-too-infrequent plot device in hardboiled literature for a man who has been away from town for many years to come back and find it controlled by thugs and syndicates. Generally, you then have a story of one man with a whole town arrayed against him. But, not here. Spillane turns the whole formula seemingly on its head and has a mean old hood come back and take over a criminal empire.

Deep is the meanest, toughest hood that ever lived and, after more than twenty years away, he's back in town. His childhood buddy has been running an empire and had the goods on everyone. Bennett's dead, but they promised way back when, all for one and one for all so the empire belongs to Deep if he has the balls to hold onto it. All he has to do is find out who killed his friend in two weeks. That is, if he can manage to keep breathing.

This is one hard-edged story with almost no let up. This is Spillane at his best and one of the reasons you have to include him in any list of the greats of the hardboiled era.

[gmillar_8 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love Mr Spillane's yarns. This is not a Mike Hammer book but it's edge-of-the-seat stuff. I didn't see the end of this one coming.