A new elite, the Angel Guards of the Provider thrive on the fury of the elements and prey on the Externals, renegade warriors who have come to the Provider's world.
Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. He is currently the Director of College Resources in a large secondary school in Bideford, where he now lives with his wife, Judy, son Sam, and daughter Katia. He remains best known for his Dream Lords trilogy as well as his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants.
This cover shot so quickly to "AWFUL" on the wheel o' suck it came back around to "AMAZING." Of course I couldn't pass it up. I may actually even read it.
I liked it for the world-building aspects and the strangeness of the setting. It's gruesome and disheartening to read much of the time given how desperate the world is, but the characters make it interesting.