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"The light goes out and planet earth is plunged in to darkness for 12 minutes when it returns there is Joe..."
Synopsis
The world is on the brink of disaster.
The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before.
Fear and confusion seep into all parts of everyday life now, more than ever, the world needs one voice, one guide...
One day the Earth is plunged into darkness and when light appears again so does a man - call him Joe - claiming to be the son of God.
Can Joe bring the world's most creative thinkers and leaders together to tackle the ills of mankind?
Can he convince us all to follow him before it's too late?
In this compelling and prescient novel, Martin van Es and Andrew Crofts highlight the key concerns of our time and imagines a future where we, at last, all work together to ensure the future of our world and all the life that calls it home.
My Review
I was drawn to this read by the blurb hot of watching Massiah on Netflix I felt this story was along the same vibes as I read I realised this read is so much more.
We start this read in a world like now a world is in a mess, countries, goverments pulling and pushing each other all about control and yet the major issues in looking after the world go unanswered.
Until one day the earth is plunged into darkness, The darkness envelopes the planet for 12 mintues, mass panic is the end of the world now? is this it?
and as the light returns so does a man called Joe, Joe comes with a warning, to survive the world must change and he is here to help.
Joe (the new name he has chosen) proffesses to be jesus the son of god and we all need to listen, the story follows the worlds reaction what do we believe after an event like that do we believe more? or for some start to believe in the first place?
We join Joe as he meets with world leaders and the top scientists and heads of religion asks them all to join him to save the world from climate change and the overall greed and corruption that is destroying people and the planet. We follow along as he picks the12 who will help him in his mission and set out his (or gods) guidelines for us all, we see miracles perfomed and doubters scilenced but what now? do we more forward? can every one in the world really come together?
While this book was written before lockdown and our current world crisis, I found this story very fitting of a planet, a collection of humans who need to band together from the hate and the worry to put the future above gains.
I am not an overly religious person and this read to me did not feel like forcing religion it felt more like posing the questions of when we become less of the countries we inhabit and more become the protectors of the planet we call home.
Read with an open mind with a view to challenge your thinking on current and past events a look at creating a world where we are more caring and kinder to each other to in the end save humanity.
Author Bio
Martin van Es
Martin van Es is a Dutch entrepreneur, father and grandfather. Born in 1959, the youngest of three children, he studied clinical psychology in Groningen, but got distracted by partying and a permanent lack of money. In 1986, he became a father to his daughter, and his son joined the world in 1989, during this time he decided it was time to study again and start living more seriously.
After graduating in international marketing, Martin took a job as a purchasing directorof a partnership of 28 wholesalers, enabling him to travel the world.He then became director of a packaging wholesaler in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Over 14 years he developed the company alongside his team to create a leading player in the international packaging industry.
In 2005, Martin sold the company to the largest distributor in the packaging world, and he ventured into volunteering, investing and advising companies. MooiWeer, on the beautiful island of Terschelling, is a father and son enterprise, of which Martin is particularly proud.
Between 2013 and 2017, martin worked as MD for a large, international, family-owned group of packaging wholesale companies specialised in environmental issues. The role, and the birth of his first two grandchildren, have had a massive influence on Martin.
He started writing Call Me Joe in 2017 and hopes the book will provoke conversation, challenge the status quo, and encourage people to question more about what is happening in the world, to question their leaders, and to consider their role in the future of the planet.
Andrew Crofts
Having been introduced by Dutch publisher, Geert Kimpen, Martin Van Es and Andrew Crofts spent a great deal of time together at Andrew’s home in Sussex and Martin’s home on the remote island of Terschelling. There were long evenings talking beside log fires and long meals in beach cafes as they worked out every detail of the story which had been brewing for many years inside Martin’s head, turning it into The One–who can save the world.
Andrew is a ghostwriter and author who has published more than a hundred books, both fiction and non-fiction, a dozen of which were Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He has also guided a number of international clients successfully through the minefield of independent publishing. Between 2010 and 2020 he has written with authors in the USA , Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, India and Africa.
Andrew’s name first became known among publishers for the stories he brought them by the otherwise disenfranchised. Travelling all over the world he worked with victims of enforced marriages in North Africa and the Middle East, sex workers in the Far East, orphans in war-torn areas like Croatia and dictatorships like Romania, victims of crimes and abused children everywhere.
The enormous success of these books brought many very different people to his door; first came the celebrities from the worlds of film, music, television and sport, and then the real elite in the form of world leaders in business and politics.
Andrew has also published his own fiction, most recently What Lies Around Us and Secrets of the Italian Gardener, which both draw on his experiences ghostwriting for the powerful and wealthy.
His books on writing include Ghostwriting, (A&C Black) and The Freelance Writer’s Handbook, (Piatkus), which has been reprinted eight times over twenty years and Confessions of a Ghostwriter(Friday Project).
Throughout his bestseller, The Ghost, Robert Harris quotes Andrew’s book, Ghostwriting. Harris’s book went on to become a major movie by the same name, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor as the eponymous ghost.
Andrew was on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors in London from 2012 to 2015. He lectures on the subject of making a living from writing and frequently guests at writing workshops, literary festivals and in the media. He blogs regularly on matters pertaining to publishing, self-publishing and writing.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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