Joe, a violent sadistic offender since his teens, has received a life sentence for multiple murder. But is it enough? Most traditional life sentences have a fixed 'minimum term' which means most rapists and killers will eventually be freed. It's only a matter of time. But their victims cannot be brought back from the dead, or from psychic mutilation they have suffered. Their families endure a true 'life sentence' of suffering from which there is no possibility of parole or early prison release.

A clique of retired judges, called 'The Project', have formed a secret supreme court to covertly review all the traditional life sentences, and, in cases of the worst injustices, intervene. They employ a network of ghosts to secretly whisk away the selected prisoner, Joe in this case, to the invisible supermax, a futuristic prison. There, Joe is forced to undergo a radical treatment of self-discovery called The Born Again, conducted by four mysterious doctors and an android robot. Few inmates can endure. They either commit suicide or go mad. Joe must find a way to survive The Born Again.

About the Author
John Mullins is an American living in UK, widowed after 44 years of marriage to his English wife Lesley. He studied Theology and worked for 28 years as a child protection social worker. For the past seventeen years he has been the correspondent and editor of a newsletter for a small international contemplative prayer group, called The Fellowship of Solitaries. He lives in Northumberland.

Reviews

"The story has a gripping plot which offers great originality with its futuristic, dystopian angle on rehabilitation. It is a pleasure to read such a profound, intelligent piece of writing. It's certainly opened my eyes to a more spiritual understanding of life, and has given me hope."

-- Abby Davies. Jericho Writers,

"This was perhaps the most creative and ingenious book that I have read in a very long time. It kept me in anticipation and often amazement, like Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'."

-- Maureen Doyle, psychiatric nurse,

"As a former forensic psychiatrist specialising in high-security male PD (Personality Disorder) individuals, I wished that I had had this book available at an early stage in my career. I am very impressed by the interweaving of religious, psychological and redemptive themes, especially the understanding of remorse as that is usually shallowly understood. I have seen remorse in the truest sense, only once. In the book I found that turn of events moving. It is one of those works that needs reading several times to get the most from it."

-- Dr. David Tombs,



Book Information
ISBN 9781805144861
Author John Mullins
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Troubador Publishing
Publisher Troubador Publishing