Division: A Brexit Thriller

by Mick Morris

Britain in 2019 is a broken and divided society, but the division is no longer dominated by the traditional differences in class, wealth or party politics, so much as by the emergence of an unbridgeable chasm between those who seek to regain the Nation's right to self-determination and those who are committed to ceding sovereignty and control in a relentless drive towards complete European Federalisation. In considering the implications for his beloved democracy, mild-mannered economist Jonathan Shawcross comes to realise that Brexit has simply been the catalyst, that the real cause of the problem lies much deeper. He realises that our democracy is a sham, just a way of keeping people happy and therefore under control. The twin systems of personal capitalism and state control are designed to work together to discourage the people from rising up against the state because they have too much to lose. He sees that `The man who has everything risks losing everything - the man who has nothing, has nothing to lose.' His faith in the system is destroyed and, via a chance meeting with his old university tutor, he is drawn into the murky world of rebellion and terrorism in pursuit of restoring true democracy - the will of the people.

344 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2019

About the author

Mick Morris is a musician and writer based in the South East of England. He was educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys, Mid-Kent College, and the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC).

Mick has always written, mostly short stories, poems and academic texts, but until 2017, his published work had been confined to strictly musical avenues: songs, CDs, articles for music magazines and the guitar tutor book `Play Straight Away'.

In 2017, he decided to publish a small book about the limerick as a form of poetry. `The Life of The Limerick' proved very popular and, encouraged by its success, he followed up with `Six-String Stories', a compendium of quotes, anecdotes and short stories about the guitar and those that play it. His next book, `Tall Stories' is described as a collection of `fanciful tales of history and imagination'. `Division', described as a Brexit Thriller, is Mick's first full-length novel.