Questo scrittore britannico si è affermato precocemente, pubblicando quattro volumi di racconti entro i ventuno anni, noti per la loro abilità e la loro quieta umanità. Dopo un periodo dedicato alla saggistica, è tornato alla narrativa, utilizzando espedienti fantascientifici per rappresentare più pienamente la sensazione di un mondo che, in modo intrinseco e tragico, non è una piattaforma per la trascendenza. I suoi romanzi esplorano società e futuri complessi, approfondendo l'inizio di viaggi avanzati e le loro complicazioni quando l'umanità incontra vita extraterrestre. I suoi thriller spesso presentano spionaggio in ambientazioni frammentate del futuro prossimo, intrecciando trame intricate che riflettono un profondo coinvolgimento con le ansie contemporanee.
For Adam Hardy and his small Berkshire community, hardship is all they've ever known. For almost a century after the coming of The Sisters, the survivors of rainswept England have huddled in their tiny communities, scavenging the ruins of the old world. Now, finally, the Long Autumn is coming to an end, and society of a kind is starting to rebuild.
In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests. It's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has come who may hold the key to unlocking Europe's most jealously-guarded secret... Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Awards
A visionary thriller of future espionage, broken borders, people smuggling, betrayal and an impossible secret The Guardian called, “a spellbinding novel of intrigue and paranoia.” Europe as we know it is gone. Devastated by a flu pandemic and crippled by economic collapse, the continent has fractured into countless tiny nations, a fragile web of shifting alliances seething with espionage and strange new technologies. In a small restaurant in Krakow, chef Rudi is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois, a shadowy organisation that will move anything across any state line – for a price. Soon, Rudi is in a world of high-risk smuggling operations, where kidnappings and double-crosses are as natural as a map that constantly redraws itself.