Spiral / Quake

Spiral #1-2

by Andy Remic

In Spiral, the secret organization known as SPIRAL fights a shadow war against fanatics and rogue states of every faith and political persuasion. Remorseless and unstoppable, its agents fight a never-ending battle for humanity's survival. But now SPIRAL itself is under attack, and if SPIRAL falls the world falls with it. In Quake, Carter—SPIRAL's toughest operative—is facing a new and terrifying challenge. The world is being held to ransom by the creators of a new and devastating machine that is capable of wreaking seismic havoc, causing earthquakes and eruptions on a global scale. It must be destroyed—and Carter must do it alone.

1136 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Andy Remic lives in Lincoln, UK, although his heart and viking soul belong to the Scottish mountains. Married with two children, Andy has a variety of esoteric and sometimes contrasting loves, including sword fighting, climbing, mountain biking, kick-boxing, Ducati motorcycles and retro-gaming. He recently wrote the computer version of his novel Biohell for the 48K Spectrum, in which many people are still stuck. He writes in both SF and fantasy fields, and is sometimes accused of literature. Current novels include: Spiral, Quake, Warhead, War Machine, Biohell, Hardcore and the upcoming Cloneworld, Theme Planet and TOX for Solaris Books, and the Kell’s Legend trilogy, Kell’s Legend, Soul Stealers and Vampire Warlords for Angry Robot Books.

Reviews

[Dale]

Kind of a cross between James Bond and Dirk Pitt, but with a good dose of the A-Team. Not bad. We'll see if the series gets even better.

[Toby Cousens · Rating 2 out of 5]

The stories are pretty good, but the writing style isn't great, author clearly fond of gory slasher movies!