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|title=The Witness

|date=August 2007

|isbn=978-0330447133

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In a dystopian Scotland in the near future, land ownership reforms have caused havoc. Global warming and administrative incompetence has destroyed lives, livelihoods and environment. An authoritarian government has brutalised peaceful protest and objectors have turned to terrorism. Eighteen-year-old John MacNeil finds himself the only witness to a government atrocity - the massacre of an entire hamlet at Blackriggs. Finding himself responsible for its only survivor, a young mentally handicapped boy called Ninian, John determines to return the boy to what's left of his family. What John doesn't realise is that Ninian himself is inextricably linked to the rebel cause. In the course of their dangerous journey across the Cairngorms, they are beset not only by murderous government troops, but also an increasingly hostile climate.