I’m thrilled to be on the blog tour for The Dark Web by Christopher Lowery, the final installment of the African Diamonds trilogy.
The Dark Web is available to buy now in paperback and ebook now. The ebook is currently only 99p, you can purchase a copy of both here.
Before I share my character spotlight with you, here is a little bit about the book.
Book Blurb:
The latest thrilling instalment in the gripping African Diamonds trilogy!
The tentacles of the Dark Web are tightening their grip around the world. From Moscow to Shanghai, Washington, UK, the Middle East and Europe, nowhere is beyond their reach.
When a computer scientist dies mysteriously in Dubai, Jenny Bishop’s nephew, Leo Stewart, is hired to replace him. Leo’s life is soon in danger, but he is the only person who can find the key to prevent an impending global cyber-attack. With the help of Jenny and old and new friends, he must neutralise the threat before the world’s vital services are brought to a halt in a flagrant attempt to once again redraw the borders of Europe and Asia. Can the deadly conspiracy be exposed before the world is thrust into a new Cold War?
Christopher Lowery delivers a gripping final chapter in the bestselling African Diamonds trilogy, with a thriller that is powerfully resonant of today’s global dangers, hidden behind the ever-changing technological landscape.
The perfect read for fans of Gerald Seymour, Wilbur Smith and Frederick Forsyth.
Character Spotlight:
Who is your character?
Four Star General William R. ‘Billy’ Chillicott
The Inspiration for your character?
Every influential public personality, from any walk of life, who has cared more about his country and people than self-advancement, private agenda or scoring points to undermine democratic process. (There are many present-day examples of the latter.)
The creation of your character?
I needed a senior military personage for the latter portion of the story, where his position allows him to influence key events. By introducing him early via a personal relationship with Leo Stewart, the reader can more easily accept his involvement with the subsequent crisis.
About your character?
He’s a man who sees the world as it is, not as he’d like it to be. He has spent his life in the service of his country and has no illusions about friends and enemies. He speaks and acts from knowledge and experience, not pseudo-intellectual theories.
Does he have any similarities with anyone ‘real’?
If so … tell us more!
This is a man of a dying breed, there are less and less of his type in today’s self-obsessed vanity world. Examples that come to mind are Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev, Churchill, Rees-Mogg.
What do you like most about your character?
Chillicott is a man who worries for all our sakes, not just his own. He would prefer to watch his grandson’s Sunday softball game, but his duty is to work to protect us, so that’s also his choice.
What do you dislike about your protagonist’s character?
He is in a minority nowadays.
Would you and your protagonist be friends ‘in real life’?
Most certainly, if he could put up with me.
What’s Next?
The Mosul Legacy is almost finished, due for publication in September. It is not part of the African Diamonds series, but a stand-alone story of the diverse consequences of terrorism. The book is set in 2016, when ISIL began to lose their strongholds in Iraq to the coalition forces, causing desperate families of refugees to flee from certain death. While they are faced with unsurmountable obstacles in their search for a peaceful, safe home, murderous jihadists are travelling easily through the Schengen zone, intent on committing an atrocity in a European city.
About The Author:
Christopher Lowery is a Geordie, born in the northeast of England, who graduated in finance and economics after reluctantly giving up career choices in professional golf and rock & roll. He is a real estate and telecoms entrepreneur and inventor and has created several successful companies around the world. Chris also writes technical patents, poetry and children’s books and has recently produced an album of his songs. He and his wife Marjorie live between London and Marbella.
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