Cruel Gods

In the not-too-distant future a deadly pathogen known as Virus X has devastated the world, and the collapse of the British government has left power in the hands of a corporate dictatorship. Citizens are constantly monitored with computer chips and surveillance drones, kept submissive and distracted with a steady diet of reality television and consumer goods.

In the midst of this moribund mess exists Amos Bloom; freelance detective, puzzle enthusiast, social wallflower and reluctant revolutionary. When he is tasked with locating a missing person, a seemingly simple case begins to unravel a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of power.

With his accomplice, the firebrand Floyd Marsh, Amos goes ever deeper down the rabbit hole of corruption, sleaze and murder in his quest for the truth, a truth that powerful people will go to any length to keep concealed.

If you're tired of reading cookie cutter novels and want something different then this book may well be for you. Weaving dark humour and satire to imagine a future that touches on many modern themes, from obsessive consumer culture to terrorism to the fake reality of mass media, Cruel Gods is part conspiracy thriller, part comedy, part manifesto.

A comedy of errors for the Misinformation Age, Cruel Gods probably won't change your life. But then again, it just might.