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Journalist, David Blake, discovers a discarded manuscript written by Mark Stevens, a convicted criminal. Always looking for a new story, Blake reads the handwritten script and uncovers a dramatic account of life in British prisons, including the enclosed world of sex offender units. Mark Stevens, a gay, Buddhist businessman and writer, relates the anger, the violence, the isolation and the relationships between prisoners, contrasting the reality of their incarceration with the oppression, neglect and threats from authority figures whose work it should be to rehabilitate prisoners and prevent their re-offending. Blake realises that he has been given a unique insight into prison life and pursues his investigation to track down Mark Stevens and uncover the truth of the manuscript. This is a unique story, with its accurate revelations of offenders and of their lives in the secret world behind bars. Being an accurate account, SHOCK is as controversial as it is heartbreaking, and as humorous as it is serious.