# The Captive - Hardcover

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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.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** September 30, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 36.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Dark Humor, Fiction, Horror, Humorous, Price Written on Book, Supernatural, Thrillers

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