Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship and the prisons are overflowing. The Regime opens Britain's first penal colony by sending prisoners to a secure island south of the Scillies. It's now five years since the first prisoners arrived and there have been changes. The prisoners are making a bid for freedom that doesn't involve escaping from the island. The Regime are increasingly disturbed and what ensues is a severe test of the prisoners' resolve. 'Prison Island' is a pacey adventure full of enlightened debate, eroticism, and action, in language that reaches for the ineffable and grasps the sublime. Not for the faint-hearted.