Other Editions
Japan | Paperback | Hayakawa | 1969
Translated by Jun Nagai.
France | Hardback | Presses de la Renaissance | 1969
Translated by Jacqueline Huet.
Japan | Paperback | Hayakawa Bunko | 1977
Translated by Jun Nagai.
France | Paperback | Presses Pocket | 1979 | 2266007491
Translated by Jacqueline Huet.
UK | Hardback | Dobson Books | 1979 | 023472059X
First edition in the UK.
UK | Paperback | New English Library | 1980 | 85p | 0450045439
He's a top level agent. Highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out.
They won't let him quit. He quits anyway.
Then suddenly there comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity. A pleasant old-style village that's packed solid with electronic surveillance hardware.
He is the Prisoner.
If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who've chained his life to the wall?
'Closely based on the extraordinary TV series, far and away the finest thing the medium has done in this genre; while Disch himself is one of the best of the new SF writers.'
OBSERVER
France | Paperback | Presses Pocket | 1992 | 2266054082
Translated by Jacqueline Huet.
UK | Paperback | Boxtree Ltd | October 1992 | £3.99 | 1852837918
This edition was released to tie in with a repeat run of the series on Channel 4. Number Two was also re-issued by Boxtree at the same time.
I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!
He's a top level agent. Highly trained and ultra-secret. But he wants out.
They won't let him quit. He quits anyway.
Then suddenly there comes the day when he wakes up in captivity. A pleasant old-fashioned Village that's packed with electronic surveillance equipment.
He is the Prisoner.
He was the best in his field, but is he good enough to escape the men who've chained his life to the wall.
United States | Paperback | I Books | 2002 | 074344504X
The I Books edition was also released as an eBook.
WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE, NUMBER 6.
He's a top-level agent, highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out, and they won't let him quit. He quits anyway. Then suddenly there comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity, in a pleasant, old-style seaside town — one packed solid with electronic surveillance equipment.
This is the Village. And he is the Prisoner.
If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top-flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who've chained his life to the wall?
United States | Paperback | Penguin Books | October 2009 | 978-0143117223
Released to tie in with the broadcast of the six-episode re-make of The Prisoner on the AMC channel.
UK | Paperback | Penguin Books | April 2010 | £7.99 | 978-0141049403
Released to tie in with the broadcast of the six-episode re-make of The Prisoner on ITV1. An eBook edition was released at the same time.
'I am not Number 6. I am not a prisoner. I am a free man.'
This is the classic novel of the TV series The Prisoner, by cult author Thomas M. Disch. First published in 1968, this new edition celebrates the long-awaited remake of the series, from ITV1 and the producers of Mad Men, starring Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel. Combining the power of a great spy thriller with Orwellian science fiction, The Prisoner follows a former British secret agent who has quit the force, only to find himself trapped in an anonymous place called the Village. Known only as 'Number 6,' he struggles to maintain his identity in the face of the nameless powers-that-be, who use increasingly sophisticated and terrifying methods to extract his secrets.
The Prisoner was also released by
Carlton Books in 2002 as part of the
Prisoner Omnibus.
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