"The Prisoner's Dilemma", the first of the new set of novels
based on Patrick McGoohan's 1967 TV series "The Prisoner", is
now available for pre-order at the Powys Media website, at
http://www.powysmedia.com .

"The Prisoner's Dilemma", by Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth,
features an introduction by longtime "Prisoner" fanatic J. Michael
Straczynski ("Babylon 5", "The Amazing Spider-Man"). Blum is
the winner of last year's Aurealis Award for Best Australian SF
Novel for "Fallen Gods"; Booth is a British filmmaker and comedy
writer. A 120,000 word 327-page trade paperback, the book is
available for $14.95.

The novel will be released in the last week of March in the US.
For the UK and Australia, initially the books will only be available
on import through specialty shops or the website, but full
overseas distribution plans are currently being settled.

Upcoming books in the series of six will be written by acclaimed
"Doctor Who" novelist Lance Parkin and Nebula Award recipient
Robert Sheckley. Further information, including excerpts from
the first novel, is available on the Powys website.

The surrealist spy series "The Prisoner" was the tale of a secret
agent who resigns his job and is abducted by unknown parties
who want the information in his head. He finds himself in a
charming seaside village which is really an escape-proof
Orwellian prison, and must fight to keep his mind intact in the
face of his captors' twisted social and psychological
mind-games. The novels are set just before the series'
legendarily enigmatic final episodes. "The Prisoner's Dilemma"
re-launches the series with a complex and paranoid tale of
murder in the Village, the uses of terrorism, and the shaping of
the Information Age.