The Captive - Hardcover

by Kit Burgoyne (Author)

From a new voice in horror comes a satirical Rosemary's Baby for our conspiratorial present in which anti-capitalist activists unwittingly unleash terrifying demonic forces when they kidnap a pregnant heiress.

From Ned Beauman, the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Teleportation Accident and Clarke Award-winning author of Venomous Lumpsucker.

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping twenty-three-year-old Adeline Woolsaw, heiress to a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centers, and prisons.
But the revolutionaries get a shock when they bundle Adeline into their van. She's about to go into labor. And she may not object to being kidnapped, if it allows her and the baby to escape her despotic parents. Her parents are the ones who made a deal with an ancient evil of nearly limitless power. Now the Woolsaws and their henchmen will stop at nothing to get the infant back, so they can establish an infernal new kingdom on Earth with their grandchild on the throne. Kit Burgoyne (pen name of Booker-listed author Ned Beauman) is a ruthlessly funny new voice in horror: witty, appalling, and as adept at skewering today's plutocratic overlords as he is at conjuring our most primeval nightmares.

Author Biography

Kit Burgoyne is the horror fiction pen name of Ned Beauman, who was named one of Granta's Twenty Best Young British Novelists in 2013, and is the author of Boxer, Beetle (winner of the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction); The Teleportation Accident (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); Glow; Madness Is Better than Defeat; and Venomous Lumpsucker (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award). He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books. He lives in London. The Captive is his first novel as Kit Burgoyne.