2024: A History of the Future

George Unwin-Smith is establishment to his fingertips — educated, enlightened, wearing privilege like skin. He is also, improbably, a member of the Spiders: a ragbag of resistance fighters who have been on the back foot for so long they have forgotten what the front foot looks like.

Perhaps he is there because of Gerry Matthews, equally well-educated, from across the Atlantic, who believes that every person has a destiny and a path to follow and simply has to find it. George is not a natural fighter. His habitat is not the battlefield, not skirmishes among rocks and bushes with a rifle in one hand and a radio in the other.

Yet somehow he has to find a way through the impossible barrier that is the United States of Europe — and to learn that heroes are not the ones who charge, but the ones who persevere, who confide in their colleagues, who pool their strengths and weaknesses and become a team. The authorities, meanwhile, will do anything to stop the rebels. Including breaking the law. Their own law.

A novel about how liberty is lost — not in a single coup, but in a thousand reasonable-sounding steps.

What you're getting into

• A chillingly plausible federal Europe, argued rather than caricatured
• Resistance as tedium, fear and small competence — not heroics
• Political fiction with a genuine moral argument at its centre
• Standalone; no series commitment required

Book details

• Series: Standalone
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-1-999786-88-5
• Publisher: Newmore Publishing

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