LIVERMORE FALLS — Timothy Schwab of Livermore Falls has published a book titled “Dogboy,” a fast-paced thriller about a man incarcerated in a prison for violent criminals. There, the prisoners cannot remember their crimes, or their names.

They all have a seemingly programmed fear of the perimeter wall and the land beyond it; this fear grows within them as time passes. They hunt for animals that come over the wall at night. They war with one another and will murder a man for his food.

They fall victim to the vicious dogs that roam the decayed city in which they find themselves.

A new prisoner, Dogboy, befriends the dogs or, rather, they befriend him. They become his faction, his clan. Dogboy will completely change prison forever, but is it for better or worse?

“Dogboy” is available at www.timothyschwab.com.