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Obedience

A Novel

By Will Lavender

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| Hardcover | 9780307396105

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“With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation.” —Kirkus Reviews


When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning Continue

“With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation.” —Kirkus Reviews


When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered.

At first the students are as intrigued by the premise of their puzzle as they are wary of the strange and slightly creepy Professor Williams. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they begin to wonder: Is the Polly story simply a logic exercise, designed to teach them rational thinking skills, or could it be something more sinister and dangerous?

The mystery soon takes over the lives of three students as they find disturbing connections between Polly and themselves. Characters that were supposedly fictitious begin to emerge in reality. Soon, the boundary between the classroom assignment and the real world becomes blurred—and the students wonder if it is their own lives they are being asked to save.

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  • Obedience By Will Lavender

    The two most famous social science experiments of the post-WWII era—designed, incidentally, by a pair of former high-school buddies—ended in disaster. Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment had to be shut down when the volunteer "guards" and "p ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

  • Book review: Will Lavender's *Obedience*

    Obedience Will Lavender Shaye Areheart Hardcover 304 pages February 2008 In a tense novel based on the Milgram Behavior Experiments in 1970, a class at Winchester University (Logic and Reasoning 204) opens with an unusual format. Professor Williams g ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • I was prepared to really like this book, but...

    I was prepared to really like this book, but it just didn't work for me. So despite taking place on a college campus and relating to a psychology theme, I was dissappointed.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 030739610X
  • ISBN-13: 9780307396105
  • Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
  • Pub date: Feb 19, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书
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