Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published Nov. 2, 1998 by HarperCollins.
Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking.
Spares – the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference…if he can run fast enough.
Spares – a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own.
Spares – it’s fiction. But only just…
This is one of only a few books that I've felt compelled to finish in one sitting. It is well-written with a good plot and a fitting ending. However, most of the stuff about The Gap (and especially the nonsense about cats and doors) made my suspension of disbelief take a nosedive.
