Book Synopsis:
A thrilling debut that has been likened to John Le Carré and Raymond Chandler . . .
Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his old mentor, Professor Fayard, the man at the centre of the web. He is ready to give up. But he can’t.
In search of the truth, Alex must follow the trail through an ominous spiral of events, from a string of brutal child murders to a chaotic coup in North Africa. He rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against chaos and destruction. He could be the world’s only hope of preventing THE COMING DARKNESS . . .
My Review:
Coming Darkness is a fantastic, fast paced thriller which is hard to believe is a debut novel.
The reader is immediately thrown into the story and into the action. I loved the main character Alex who was an intelligent, loyal man who I loved following throughout the book. His grit and determination was brilliant to witness. I was immediately on his side and wanted him to succeed.
The world that the author has created was a fantastic one that I loved exploring alongside the characters. It’s a world set in the near future, one that is eerily similar to our current world but with enough difference to send a shiver down my spine as I read. It’s a world that is very plausible and I could sadly see becoming reality.
This is a fast paced thriller with lots of twists and plenty of suspense to keep the reading glued to the page. It did take me a little while to get my head around all the characters but I soon had them straight and enjoyed learning more about them. I loved the way the different threads come together in the end in a way I hadn’t guessed. I’m really hoping there will be a sequel as I’d love to visit Alex again.
Huge thanks to Sophia from Midas for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publishers for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
A theatre director, playwright and actor Greg Mosse is the founder and director of the Criterion New Writing programme at the Criterion Theatre in London, running workshops in script development to a diverse community of writers, actors and directors. In addition, since 2015, Greg has written, produced and stage 25 plays and musicals.
Greg set up both the Southbank Centre Creative Writing School – an open access program of evening classes delivering MA level workshops – and the University of Sussex MA in Creative Writing at West Dean College which he taught for 4 years.
The husband of the bestselling novelist Kate Mosse, Kate’s hit novel Labyrinth was inspired by a house that Greg and his mother bought together in the French medieval city of Carcassonne, where the couple and their children spent many happy summers. Following the success of Labyrinth, Greg created the innovative readers-and-writers website mosselabyrinth.co.uk MosseLabyrinth. The first of its kind MosseLabrynth was the world’s first online accessible 3D world, and the inspiration for Pottermore – the popular Harry Potter website.
A multilinguist, Greg has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid and has worked as both an interpreter at a variety of international institutions and a teacher in the UK.
Greg and Kate live in Chichester, where Kate’s parents founded the Chichester Festival Theatre, they have two grown up children.
The Coming Darkness was written during lockdown and is Greg’s debut novel.
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I loved this too and, like you, found it hard to believe it was a debut. And I’m also hoping for a sequel…
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It was so good wasn’t it! Fingers crossed for a sequel!
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