Barcode

When I wrote the novel several years ago, I wrote the blurb below. It's probably as good a description as I could come up with now, so here it is:

Barcode is the story of one man's revealing, and sometimes brutal, journey through a future post-collapse society in search of his sister's murderers. It is a journey that will take him through a world of contrasts; a world in which humanity lives in tranquil, garden cities, buried beneath domes, while outside is a poisoned landscape, bombarded with deadly ultra-violet rays and sparsely populated by deformed, mutated wildlife.

"You're a psycho!" - A former work colleague after reading the first line.

It is a world of beautiful and peaceful people, of a caring and gentle society - on the surface. For like most "utopias" this one is not for all. For the citizens, life is long and pleasurable. but for the genetically-engineered slaves who make it possible, life is usually short and harsh.

"All the women are naked and they all end up dead!" - My brother's then-girlfriend after reading the first two chapters. (It isn't true, but I thought it was a good quote).