Endangered Nation

Strike a Match #3

by Frank Tayell

In 2019, the AIs went to war. Three days later, hundreds of nuclear missiles were launched. The electromagnetic pulse destroyed the machines, but the radiation and ensuing famine nearly destroyed humanity. By 2039, civilisation had regressed to the age of steam, but newer technologies were on the horizon. The future looked bright until the warlords swept through Europe. Villages and towns were laid waste, the few thousand people who’d hacked out a life in the continental wasteland were butchered. It was only when the barbarians reached the British garrison in Calais that they were stopped. And so, another war began. In Dover, life goes on. Food needs to be grown. Children need to be taught. For Ruth Deering, the city’s newest police officer, crimes need to be solved. When an artist is murdered, an investigation begins that will take her far beyond the city’s walls and, ultimately, determine the fate of their fragile democracy. Set in Britain and France, twenty years after the world we know was destroyed.

Genres: Science Fiction, Mystery

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2017

About the author

Author of post-apocalyptic and near-future science fiction, with a focus on democracies struggling against dystopia.

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Reviews

[Alan Debban · Rating 3 out of 5]

Satisfying closure to series.

Plot moves very fast. Not often needed in fiction, but locales change so frequently that maps would be useful. Absolutely necessary to have read earlier books in the series to know what is going on.

[michael mcleary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strike match

A well written trilogy. I enjoyed wreding them all . Well written caricatures and possible plot that twists and tur6

[Gary Letham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book three of Ruth Deerings saga brings us supposedly to the end of the conspiracy uncovered in book one. Ruth now an experienced detective is posted by Mitchell to Dover for her own protection after the events of The Counterfeit Conspiracy. Emmett is still on the loose and as Dover is a tightly guarded naval town it is deemed safe. An apparent suicide ends this as the tentacles of Emmetts plans come close to Dover, the Channel Tunnel and the bridgehead into Europe being defended in Calais from a disparate set of "tribes" setting siege to it. As the investigation deepens it becomes apparent the mastermind may be someone close and trusted. Another great read from Frank Tayell