The Coming Darkness

The Coming Darkness is the debut novel by Greg Mosse. A dystopian novel which is both extremely believable and utterly terrifying.

Paris, 2037. global warming and pathogenic viruses are rampant causing curfews and blackouts. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. His target is set on destabilising the controls placed on global governments that protect human life from climate change. One wrong move and the world could be plunged into darkness.

As Lamarque travels from Paris to North Africa, he is drawn into an ominous sequence of events: a theft from a Norwegian genetics lab; a string of violent child murders; his mother's desperate illness; a chaotic coup in North Africa, and the extraction under fire of its charismatic leader.

Experience has taught Alex there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his mentor, Professor Fayard – the man at the centre of a deadly web of government control. Lamarque rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against time, the one man with the ability to prevent chaos and destruction taking over. Perhaps the world's only hope of preventing The Coming Darkness...

Mosse wrote this during 2020's lockdown and it certainly shows in his writing. Although, there is a lot of futurist references, such as the advanced technological comms-watches, holoscreens and use of mirco-chips in humans, it definitely feels very believable. There was a lot going on in this book, with a host of characters and different themes running parallel, making for a meaty read.

A complex, chilling thriller which would suit fans of I Am Pilgrim or those who enjoy espionage novels.