# The Guard

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- Authors: [Peter Terrin](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-terrin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-08-30

## Description

Isolation, terror, paranoia. Two guards in a luxury apartment block stick to their posts while the world collapses around them. 'A mix of psychological thriller and SF fable, this is a strange, wonderfully claustrophobic novel' John O'Connell, Guardian. (Guardian) Harry and Michel are stationed in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the 1%. Until all the residents leave - apart from a man on floor 29. Harry and Michel stick to their posts. The world might be at war, plunged into nuclear winter or decimated by a disease; they may be the last inhabitants in the city. All they know is that if they are vigilant, 'the organisation' will reward them: promotion to an elite cadre of security officers remains their goal, and their days are punctuated by vivid dreams of everything they are missing. But what if there were no-one left to guard? And if the promised third officer arrives, how will he fit into Michel and Harry's studied routine of boredom and paranoia?

## Editions

### The Guard

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-18-4866-294-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-09-26
- Language: en_GB

### The Guard

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5738-434-8
- Published: 2012-08-30
- Language: en_GB