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This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from January 2006 and lives here forevermore.

Best New Reading of 2005 : The Prisoner's Dilemma

Another year, another top ten list. This time I’ll try to list the 10 entries in the list before the end of January, rather than the end of March like last year. Anyway, this years number 10 is The Prisoner’s Dilemma by Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth. It’s the first new Prisoner novel in 30-something years (if we exclude Roger Langleys work, which I think we should) and is a vast improvement on the books published at the time.

This bookis the first of a projected 6 book series and is definitely written by people who have seen, know and love the series. It’s not a perfect book with parts of it not really adding anything to the story, such as the excursion into the desert, but overall they have the right sort of idea and carry it off well. I’ll definitely buy the next book once I can place a pre-order. Sadly the release date for it keeps slipping.