Novels

Safe State (Coming Soon)

"They took her reality and made it their fiction. But she's going to choose how it ends."

It’s 2058. Six years after the Winter of Disconnect, Jas McDonnell is managing survivors’ guilt like everyone else outside England’s big city enclaves: with electromagnetic emotional correction, artificially induced reality, and good old chemical escape. 

Trapped in a backwater town surrounded by rural anarchy, Jas prays the mayor’s constabulary will be enough to fend off the raiders who could drag her back to the hellscape of her childhood. She just wants to be safe, so she can scrape a living under the unblinking gaze of the Storybirds, hoping to trigger their interest algorithms so they’ll stream a few moments of her life to wealthy voyeurs down in Grand London. 

The problem is, watching’s not always enough to sate posthuman ennui. Sometimes they like to write the plot. And Jas’s little soap opera is about to become a horror movie, courtesy of the mayor’s latest cyborg acquisitions…

Safe State is The Truman Show’s grimy British cyberpunk cousin, set in a claustrophobic town packed with swarming cyborg insects, reanimated corpses, and a power-crazed mayor with a penchant for sable robes and illegal biotech. This is market town Lincolnshire like you’ve never imagined: where emotions are synthetically induced, personalities rewired with synapse sculpts, and the grim ‘shitspace’ of reality obscured by an augmented veneer of retinal projection. 

It's the world one traumatised, disfigured girl must survive if she’s to take on the embryoshaped sociopaths messing with her life. Her dad used to say ‘living dangerous is living right’. She’s about to find out how wrong he really was.

No Good Deed (2019)

"He wants to leave his past behind, but his past won't leave him alone."

The legend of Crow is fading. MI6’s most notorious fixer has disappeared. Rumours abound in the covert realm. He’s retired in Mexico. He’s languishing in Evin prison. He’s dead at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Bruce Thorne knows the rumours aren’t true. After all, he started most of them.

He doesn’t want to be Crow any more. But when he agrees to track down a friend’s missing daughter, he finds a trail of deception that threatens to drag him back into the underworld he thought he’d escaped.

Thorne’s used to being haunted by his past. But now it’s hunting him, that’s different. Maybe that legend hasn’t faded fast enough. Because he’s about to discover that it’s not just the girl’s survival at stake. It’s his own.

An intricate plot set in motion by the compelling opening scene unravels towards an inevitable, multi-sided showdown. With its thinking–feeling hero and relatable supporting cast, No Good Deed is an enjoyably different kind of thriller. Highly recommended!" (Amazon 5-Star Review Nov 2021)

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