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Gnosis
How far would your conscience take you?
In a world increasingly disturbed by the Climate Change Phenomenon, and with overwhelming economic refugee migration, Max Harrington’s conscience led him to create GNOSIS; a computerised management system to regulate energy and fuel consumption around the globe.
His vision was of a cleaner, fairer and healthier world. What he didn’t see, however, was that the big data created would become a far more valuable prize to those less bound by conscience.
This political thriller, set in the digital age, follows a trail of murderous clues, running from the academic fields of Cambridge, through the powerbrokers of Westminster and into the war-torn desolation of the Holy Lands.
In a world increasingly disturbed by the Climate Change Phenomenon, and with overwhelming economic refugee migration, Max Harrington’s conscience led him to create GNOSIS; a computerised management system to regulate energy and fuel consumption around the globe.
His vision was of a cleaner, fairer and healthier world. What he didn’t see, however, was that the big data created would become a far more valuable prize to those less bound by conscience.
This political thriller, set in the digital age, follows a trail of murderous clues, running from the academic fields of Cambridge, through the powerbrokers of Westminster and into the war-torn desolation of the Holy Lands.
366 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 8, 2016
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About the author
Ian Cawley
6 books4 followersMy working life has been spent in the Creative Arts and education. Up to this point my writing has been for the screen and GNOSIS, a mystery thriller, this is a first foray into the novel format. The GNOSIS story is set against those universal concerns that presently touch us all; the future for our families in a rapidly changing environment with ever advancing political extremes.
Given the demand for a sequel, I am presently developing the ideas to take 'Max', our hero, into a world of continuing adventures.
You can contact me on mail@iancawley.com
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Given the demand for a sequel, I am presently developing the ideas to take 'Max', our hero, into a world of continuing adventures.
You can contact me on mail@iancawley.com
or leave a message here.
Follow me on Facebook
@GNOSISbyIanCawley
and Twitter
@AuthorIanCawley
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August 19, 2016
I started “Gnosis” around mid-morning of a day of holiday, expecting just to read a few chapters and then do other things, but as I got into it, I felt the desire to read a little bit more and then a little bit more and by the end of the evening, I’d finished all 350 or so pages… This doesn’t happen to me often and I think it’s a testament to the novel’s narrative drive and ability to carry the reader along that this happened.
As well as being highly readable, “Gnosis” is full of interesting, if often pretty scary, ideas. It falls into the category of Science Fiction, along with the likes of Ray Bradbury, whereby a future world (in this case a pretty near future) is created in order to shed a light on our current world, in this case focusing on the power wielded by huge international corporations, their relentless drive for profit regardless of any human consequences, climate change, global inequality, war, the flaws in our legal and political systems and the digital interconnectedness of the world and the potential this brings for both good and ill, i.e. some of the most crucial and concerning issues of our time.
This last issue of digital interconnectedness is fundamental to the novel and the author explores the notion that this can be simultaneously the mechanism for maintaining the status quo and escalating the problems of the world but could also become the means of bringing about its own downfall and the downfall of our current way of life…
All of which sounds very academic… but all these ideas are spun into a yarn which sucks the reader along through a number of very vivid scenes and situations (the scenes in Palestine being some of the most shocking and memorable for me) until the book reaches a very dramatic finale. As seems right, the author isn’t didactic about the ending, but leaves the reader to figure out what to make of it all.
This is a book that will make you think. It’s simultaneously an intelligent, entertaining and scary book. It’ll pull you along on its journey. It’ll entertain you with lots of interesting details, characters, plot twists and dialogue. It’ll leave you with images from it left in your mind and it’ll leave you wondering a little bit more about this digital globalised world we live in…
I strongly recommend reading it.
As well as being highly readable, “Gnosis” is full of interesting, if often pretty scary, ideas. It falls into the category of Science Fiction, along with the likes of Ray Bradbury, whereby a future world (in this case a pretty near future) is created in order to shed a light on our current world, in this case focusing on the power wielded by huge international corporations, their relentless drive for profit regardless of any human consequences, climate change, global inequality, war, the flaws in our legal and political systems and the digital interconnectedness of the world and the potential this brings for both good and ill, i.e. some of the most crucial and concerning issues of our time.
This last issue of digital interconnectedness is fundamental to the novel and the author explores the notion that this can be simultaneously the mechanism for maintaining the status quo and escalating the problems of the world but could also become the means of bringing about its own downfall and the downfall of our current way of life…
All of which sounds very academic… but all these ideas are spun into a yarn which sucks the reader along through a number of very vivid scenes and situations (the scenes in Palestine being some of the most shocking and memorable for me) until the book reaches a very dramatic finale. As seems right, the author isn’t didactic about the ending, but leaves the reader to figure out what to make of it all.
This is a book that will make you think. It’s simultaneously an intelligent, entertaining and scary book. It’ll pull you along on its journey. It’ll entertain you with lots of interesting details, characters, plot twists and dialogue. It’ll leave you with images from it left in your mind and it’ll leave you wondering a little bit more about this digital globalised world we live in…
I strongly recommend reading it.
June 22, 2018
What a great read! I managed to fully immerse myself in this book finding it increasingly more difficult to put down as the story progressed. There are enough plot twists to make the story exciting without being challenging.
Ian Cawley has taken a select handful of current topics, such as Middle Eastern struggles, IOT (Internet of Things), Hacking and terrorism and created a compelling tale of a highly plausible future for us all.
The scenes in Palestine, for me, are the most shocking in this book. The sense of realism is both terrifying and thought provoking, this was the hardest part of the book for me to tackle.
This book will keep you entertained, and make you realise how vulnerable we all are to technology and those who control it.
Ian Cawley has taken a select handful of current topics, such as Middle Eastern struggles, IOT (Internet of Things), Hacking and terrorism and created a compelling tale of a highly plausible future for us all.
The scenes in Palestine, for me, are the most shocking in this book. The sense of realism is both terrifying and thought provoking, this was the hardest part of the book for me to tackle.
This book will keep you entertained, and make you realise how vulnerable we all are to technology and those who control it.
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