Europe in Autumn
The start of a stunning new alternative-reality espionage series!
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:14th Feb '14
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A tense, intelligent spy thriller set in an alternative Europe fractured into hundreds of independent micro-states
In a Europe riven into a hundred tiny principalities, chef Rudi is drawn into a new career with a shadowy organisation that will move anything across any state line – for a price. Soon, he’s in a world of high-risk smuggling operations, where kidnappings and double-crosses are as natural as a map that constantly redraws itself.
* FINALIST FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND BSFA AWARDS * 'A spellbinding novel of intrigue and paranoia' - GUARDIAN 'One of my best reads from the past year' - HUFFINGTON POST 'Picture John le Carré meets Christopher Priest' - REACTOR 'Makes me want to see what else its author will do' - STRANGE HORIZONS 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 itsThe author's authoritative prose, intimate knowledge of eastern Europe, and his fusion of Kafka with Len Deighton, combine to create a spellbinding novel of intrigue and paranoia * Guardian *
One of my best reads from the past year * Huffington Post *
This awesome concoction of sci-fi and spies - picture John le Carré meets Christopher Priest - is an early favourite of the year for me * Reactor *
Makes me want to see what else its author has done and will do * Strange Horizons *
A world filled with subtle differences from our own, building up to a series of rather brilliant reveals * Starburst *
Put simply, Europe in Autumn is an astounding piece of fiction * SFBook Review *
Filled with character, threat and intrigue... larger than life yet believable. Hutchinson shows a daunting grasp for writing timely and insightful speculative fiction * SFFWorld *
Everyone will take away something different and view it in a different light... It's worth sitting down and letting it wash over you in its own anarchic, indefinable way * SF Crow’s Nest *
Thundering through endless crosses and double-crosses, Europe in Autumn is pretty much unlike anything else I have ever read * Upcoming4me *
- Commended for John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2015
ISBN: 9781781081952
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320 pages
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