| Introduction: |
| The world is
in darkness, buried beneath a dark, mysterious cloud. The dictators
Intrum and Justica have used the crisis to take power. Michael
Dean's absentee father shows up for the first time in twenty years.
Within a day his father is killed by Intrum and Justica's Secret
Police, leaving Michael with the blame. He is arrested and imprisoned
without trial. But this rebellious and clever engineer, escapes
and sets out to halt the vile purges of Intrum and Justica. He
will run for the rest of his life… |
| Reviews: |
| ‘Here we have a tale that
is Utopian-inclined yet with nail-biting realism. A near-future
Earth coming to grips with an astronomical disaster has solutions
maybe as bad as the problems. But this is more a story about people,
their potential and consequences. It explores attitudes and reactions
to events we can all relate to especially in the light of global
political and geo-environmental issues we all face.
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| Ben Bamber is a writer to watch. He has vision
and an urge to write well in such a way we feel compelled to read.
I look forward to the sequel.
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| "I was genuinely interested
in where this tale was heading and there are some fine ideas in
here."
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| "The book is intriguing.
I found myself unwilling to let the book go until I had finished
it. I would definitely pick up the sequel if I were to come across
it."
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| "Its post-apocalypse setting
and ambience reminded me of Richard Cowper's Twilight of Briareus,
Brian Aldiss' Greybeard and several of John Wyndham's books, whilst
the cloud causing the problems gave echoes of Fred Hoyle's The
Black Cloud. Because of this, it stimulated an affectionate nostalgia". |
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