Peter Inseal
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 150
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Operation Cyclops is a philosophical comedy about prison, politics and power. Carlos Castaneda meets Viktor Pelyevin meets Andreas Baader. The novel is narrated by an unnamed prisoner in an unnamed British prison. Rattling, straight-jacketed and down the Block, his only companions are a Libertarian spider called Boris, and Phil the drugs- dealing pigeon. When the voices start, he thinks he is going mad. But then his cell is invaded by a series of hallucinatory visitors, including an invisible Bolshevik, a Mexican witch and the legendary revolutionary Emma Goldman. Each visitor brings news of a terrible conspiracy to enslave the world. Time is running out. Meanwhile, the prison is shipping in some of the hardest men in the system. All under one roof. Something is about to start kicking off. Operation Cyclops is a book about the insanity of prison and the prison of insanity. It's a comedy of boredom. And it's a compelling manifesto in the War of the Poor against the Aneristic mind of the capitalist machine. Of course, it may all be a paranoid hallucination. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't going to get you... Pete Inseal was born in 1965 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He left school at the age of 15 without any qualifications and worked for many years in menial jobs, including as a grave-digger and as a sand-blaster. He has spent over ten years in various prisons all over the UK for drug-related offences; during his last sentence he wrote Operation Cyclops. He now lives the life of a recluse in Bradford, West Yorkshire.