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Brainfix

by Chris Boyce

In a Britain devastated by economic crisis and civil unrest, the creator of a mind-controlling nerve gas struggles to prevent his invention from being used as the ultimate instrument of population control.

Accession 9256 ISBN 0586048561 Publisher Granada
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