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A Thousand Suns
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Hardcover 352 pages (May 18, 2006)
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd)
Language: English
ISBN: 0752872540
Category (ies): Fiction, Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Book Description
On April 30th 1945 the Allies secretly surrendered unconditionally to Nazi Germany. Four hours later that surrender was withdrawn.
The world never knew - until now...
Synopsis
Its early April of 1945 and the dog-days of World War II. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the high command has one more throw of the dice to make... An audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the oncoming apocalypse. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured US bomber and one suicidally brave pilot to fly it over the Atlantic into the beating heart of America. Half a century later, a rusting plane is discovered, sunk with its crew, off the coast of New York - a relic from a bygone age. Chris Roland, a brilliant young photographer, is sent to take photos of this time capsule. But it is only when he discovers that the fragments of Nazi uniforms on the decaying corpses that he realises that he has come across a secret so terrible that even fifty years it could still kill him...
Review
A Thousand Suns: Alex Scarrow
This book is a fantastic debut Novel for Alex, I myself am a fan of many genre, and in the world of War time exploits one of my favorite authors is Jack Higgins, some one I consider the master of this genre. I would put this book up there with his best, against the likes of Cold Harbour and The Eagle Has landed.
The Story Is a great testament to the courage or the men who fought in those times, alot of people forget or don’t know that the Germans had many Brave men who were not Nazis and hated the Nazi ideal, but at the same time were committed to Germany and her people. They fought under the same appalling conditions with a great deal of courage and conviction…there are 2 side to every tale and this Story Shows the courage of the men from both sides and the hard decisions they might have had to make.
The story has a nice pace to the action, flitting between past and present without confusing the reader, and embroils you in web of secrecy that might have surrounded such an event if it had truly happened with its excellent easy to like characters.
It’s a shame that this book is clearly a 1 off as I would really have like to meet some of these characters again.
Keep up the good work Alex and I hope you write another wartime novel soon as you have a great flair for it.
Last Light
Synopsis
After several years of research into an issue that affects us all, Alex Scarrow has written a chilling thriller that depicts in a harrowingly convincing way just how fragile our society really is, and how we are only a hair's breadth away from its collapse. It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. And this is no natural disaster: someone is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home to his family, trapped as transport links and the very infrastructure of daily life begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to London, where their children are marooned as events begin to spiral out of control; riots, raging fires, looting, rape and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into a lawless and anarchic vision of Hell. And against all this, a mysterious man is tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who might be able to reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. It seems that the same people who now have a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed their muscles before, at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret - and their power - safe. A knuckle-whitening look at what our future could hold, LAST LIGHT is terrifying, compelling, and above all, convincing.
Review
This book WILL be the thriller of the year, its a cover to cover gripping what if that will suck you in and leave you thinking, wondering and probably a hell of a lot scared about just how fragile our modern lifestyle really is.
I dare any of you to read this book and finish it with a clear conscience about your carbon footprint, to not check the cupboards to see what food you have in and to wonder if leaving the city might be an idea...those programs about a better life in the country will not look so stupid to you anymore!!
This is a do not miss book. So buy it now using the Amazon link or pre order from the Scarrow shop
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Review from welsh Dragon
Fantastic Thriller! Frightening Reality!
We live in a world reliant on oil. Petrol for our cars. Electricity for our homes and workplaces. Fuel for the trucks, ships, planes and machinery that provides us with the very basics we need to live, food and water. For us to continue the way we are, the oil must flow.
But what if it stops? In Last Light, Alex Scarrow dares to ask that question. And the answers he provides are shocking.
Last Light is an action packed Thriller set in a world that within days finds itself in the grip of anarchy and chaos. It is well written, fast paced and with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing right up to the last page. Alex Scarrow manages to touch on every aspect of modern life, from Chavs and Hoodies to the war in Iraq. From government spin doctors to globalisation, and uses them to show just how fragile the world we live in is. But it is also a human story, as we see these events through the eyes of Andy Sutherland and his family, as they struggle to stay alive and find a way to be reunited.
I have read few thrillers that have kept me so enthralled with its plot and characters. And none before that have made me consider just how much we rely on oil for our very survival.
We think that we’re safe in Britain. We think that what happens in the Middle East doesn’t really affect our way of life. We think that the oil will just keep on coming. We’re wrong!
What will you do when the oil runs out?
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October Skies
Synopsis
2008: Deep in the mountain forests of Wyoming, Julian Cooke stumbles across the rotting remains of a wooden wagon. He's discovered what's left of the Preston Group, a convoy of settlers that vanished in the winter of 1856. It's clear that something horrific happened here all those years ago, but Cooke can only find a few tantalising clues. 1856: as early snows descend, the eclectic group of settlers that form the Preston wagon train are forced to dig in. Miles from any kind of civilisation, they see the group of Native Americans also trapped nearby as their greatest threat. But they soon realise what true danger is. When a woman is found murdered, appallingly mutilated, one of the Indian party struggles wounded back to camp, whispering of unspeakable evil as he dies. United by fear, the settlers and the Indians must protect themselves against whatever is lurking in the woods. But as suspicion and panic grow, perhaps their own terror will be just as dangerous. Or maybe, whatever's out there is worse than anything they can imagine. Back in the present day, as Cooke unravels the mystery, he must question if the horror he is uncovering was in fact only the start of something much worse.
..A gruesome thriller of suspense and a chilling look at the breeding grounds of evil, Alex Scarrow's new novel will fascinate and terrify you in equal measure.
Review
October Skies is another exceptional thriller from Alex Scarrow; he is book by book establishing himself as one of the best thriller writers around.
Check out his other titles Last Light & A Thousand Suns
His use of the time slip style is second to none, each chapter building the story and tension until the amazing conclusion. The mark of a good thriller writer is to keep you guessing, and October Skies does just that all the way to the end. The characters are as usual Alex's strong point, he develops each person brilliantly, no thriller works unless you care what happens to the character and Alex makes you do just that.
I also think the book delivers a scary image of just what could happen in the US, thanks to the power of religion in US politics.
I can't wait to see what Alex produces next.
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Timeriders: Young Adult book from Alex Scarrow published by Puffin books
Puffin is very excited to welcome acclaimed thriller writer Alex Scarrow to their list with Streamers, which weaves thriller and time travel together in a truly gripping plot. Shannon Park, Puffin's Senior Editor, agreed a two-book deal for world rights with Rowan Lawton at William Morris Agency. The first book, timeriders, which starts on the Titanic as it begins to sink...will be published in paperback in 2010.
Alex Scarrow says, 'Timeriders is the YA series I've been itching to write for years, since my days as a computer games designer and since I first read Fatherland by Robert Harris and Harry Turtledove's amazing works. timeriders is a series that plays fun and games with 'What If' history, features gadgets 'n' gizmos, whacked-out technology and pan-dimensional spooks, an eclectic cast of young characters recruited without a choice from near-death, to fight in the frontline of time...to preserve history as it is.
Review
As someone who reads and reads and reads i have always said i'm not going to get sucked into the kids / YA market. EG Harry Bloomin potter market, its a kids book for kids and can be read by kids.
BUT....i have been proved a liar.
Im a huge fan of Alex Scarrows writing so when i heard about this book i had to give it a go, the concept alone is brilliant, but as usual his main strength comes to the fore. Great characters. The man just knows people and writes them so well and that comes across so well in this book.
Time slip is his normal forte, and this time he takes it one step further and is even able to move in time, this series has so much potential i wish i had kids to share it with...but there are always nephews, nieces and god children, and lets face it im hooked as well. im not going to hide this book on my shelf, it can sit proudly next to the grown up books.
So in Summary no matter your age...go buy this book i promise you will not regret it.
Alex Keep up the great work...lets see loads more of these Timeriders...and great news for any fans to go with this is Alex also has Afterlight due out this year, so all fans get Double Alex Scarrow fun this year.
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Afterlight
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Orion (27 May 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1409108155
The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world. But as her and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...
Review
An exceptional sequel from Alex, when i heard he was to write a follow up to Last light i was unsure how he was going to pull it off, how do you write a decent book after you have written the end of the world thriller?
This is Alex at his best, he has a great way of looking at society and showing you all the bits you dont want to see, all the bits we tend to blank out and tune out, in this reality they are the element that has come to the fore, its survival of the fittest, and those with no moral compass.
But its not all doom and gloom, in any scenario of this type there is always a glimmer of hope, and this comes in the guise of the Sutherlands and their oil rig community, is this enough? can people just live by surviving or do they need more, do they need to hope that there is more out there?
Timeriders 2 Day of the Predator
Due to be published Aug 2010
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance – to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn’t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he's torn to pieces by dinosaurs – and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?
review
I have been a fan of Alex's work for some time now, and have started with his adult thrillers all of which I have enjoyed immensely.
When I heard that he was going to do a children's series I thought "I'm not a Teen I don't read YA books" and I have always stuck
With the principle that I don't Read YA books. But something made me break that rule, I suppose its his skill at writing characters!
Anyway, I read TR1 and loved it and thought, yup this is good, but is it a flash in the pan? NO TR2 has shown that this is Alex's True niche
Don't get me wrong I hope he always writes adult thrillers as well, but Timeriders is his forte, and its not really Young adult, it really is something
for adults and teens and kids to share, it really spans the age groups appealing to all and not speaking down to anyone.
The main characters are once again brilliantly written, the story line is well paced and flows beautifully. I cant wait for TR3.4 5 6 7 etc...
Time Riders 3 : The Doomsday Code
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance – to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam's name get in there . . . and why? Confronted by Adam in 2001, the TimeRiders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing, they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future . . .
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