Faculty of Indifference

The Faculty of Indifference is a black comedy about torture, boredom, suicide, and love, following Robert Exley, who works for the Faculty and spends his life making sure that nothing ever happens. When he takes on a colleague's case, it leads to a flat full of explosives, guns, and cash, but it's the wrong flat. He finds a man in an orange jumpsuit shackled to the floor deep beneath the Faculty's offices, and everything he thinks he knows turns inside out.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2019
Publisher: Salt Publishing

A bad day, according to Robert Exley, is a day when something unexpected occurs. He works for the Faculty, where his life is dedicated to ensuring that nothing ever happens. This is the job of counter-terrorism.

Exley's wife also worked there, although she has been dead for years. Somehow, she remains ever present, even though she is far away. Now, their bookish son is leaving home, and Exley is compelled to decode an encrypted journal that holds secrets they cannot discuss.

When Exley takes on a colleague's case, it leads him to a flat filled with explosives, guns, and cash. However, it turns out to be the wrong flat. Furthermore, when Exley discovers a man in an orange jumpsuit shackled to the floor deep beneath the Faculty's offices, everything he believes he knows is turned upside down.

The Faculty of Indifference blends elements of Beckett, St. Augustine's prison diaries, Japanese Go, and Greek tragedy to create a profoundly black comedy about torture, boredom, suicide, and love. Trapped in the moment between an intolerable past and an even worse future, Exley realizes that he has no choice but to live.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784631765