A gritty and raw debut holding nothing back as it plunges you in to this dystopian world
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"He sees the future. He's fighting to have one. "
Synopsis
LAURIE STERNE feels like he’s been cut adrift in space. His father has been shot dead, caught in the crossfire of a gangland war that has also claimed his boss’s life.
Laurie is a refugee who lost his adoptive mum years before and doesn’t know where he was born, let alone who his birth parents were.
But he’s not alone in the world: someone is trying to kill him.
This is London, 2050, a dumping ground for climate refugees and dissidents. Gangs rule, murder goes unpunished and the police make sure you can’t escape.
In his struggle to stay alive, he finds an ally: his former boss’s secret daughter.
But with the killer predicting his every move, is the man without a past being betrayed by the woman who seems to offer him a future?
My Review
Welcome to the year 2050, its as bad as it gets, flooding, war, gang rule on the street, London has become a prison.
Over population by millions of refugees ruled by the police and by a strange government and all penned here in the mass prison slowly sinking under the rising flood levels.
Here in the bleak world we find
Laurie Sterne struggling as a refugee alone in the world working for gangsters.
What follows is Laurie's story filled with violence, gang wars and in parts love but who can he really trust? and why is someone out to kill him?
This gritty and raw debut holds nothing back as it plunges you in to this dystopian almost apocalyptic climate changed world.
A great thriller set on a landscape that all to worryingly shows a future we could be facing. I am very much looking forward to how this series progresses.
Author Bio
Simon J Lancaster is the author of The Black Ditch, the first in the Laurie Sterne trilogy of dystopian future thrillers.
Prior to writing novels he was a national newspaper journalist in London, as well as a music critic and private pilot.
He has written short stories and plays and, after reading extensively about climate change, concluded that the fantasy gun-play of contemporary-set action novels would be the lived experience of our coming world.
Social Media Links – Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/simon.lancaster.75457
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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.