A massive new talent in British fiction, Greg Mosse’s storytelling is complex and finely crafted, combining twisting plotlines, intelligent dialogue and ambiguous characters, all skilfully brought together in an epic climax. Never before has dystopian fiction been so chillingly real.
Set in an alternate near future in which global warming and pathogenic viruses have torn through the fabric of society, The Coming Darkness follows French secret operative Alexandre Lamarque on the trail of global eco-terrorists. Lamarque’s target is set on destabilising the controls placed on global governments that protect human life from climate change. One wrong move and the world could be plunged into darkness.
From Paris to North Africa, Lamarque is drawn into an ominous sequence of events: a theft from a Norwegian genetics lab; a string of violent child murders; his mother’s desperate illness; a chaotic coup in North Africa, and the extraction under fire of its charismatic leader.
Experience has taught Alex there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his mentor, Professor Fayard – the man at the centre of a deadly web of government control. Lamarque rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against time, the one man with the ability to prevent chaos and destruction taking over.
Perhaps the world’s only hope of preventing The Coming Darkness…
– Early Praise for The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse –
“Superb – there’s an ominous drumbeat throughout, and pace and tension, and a subtle and scarily plausible dystopia – and above all there’s main character Alex Lamarque, who could be one of the greats. Greg Mosse writes like John Le Carré’s hip grandson.” Lee Child
“This is exactly the sort of big, meaty, ambitious thriller that the market needs. I haven’t read a book like this since I AM PILGRIM.” Anthony Horowitz
“A finely-crafted, complex thriller. An utterly satisfying story set in a forensically detailed dystopic future which is too close for comfort.” Lesley Thomson
