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A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster ? The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing.
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‘Paul Hardisty is a visionary’Â Luke McCallin
‘A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world’Â The Times
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‘Paul Hardisty is a fine writer’ Lee Child
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Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events that set the planet on its course to disaster were the stories his step-father, long-dead, recorded in his manuscript, The Forcing.Â
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But there are huge gaps in his stepfather’s account, and when Kweku stumbles across a clandestine broadcast by someone close to the men who forced the globe into a climate catastrophe, he knows that it is time to find out for himself.
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Kweku and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet. What they find will challenge not only their faith in humanity, but their ability to stay alive.
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The devastating, nerve-shattering prequel to the critically acclaimed thriller The Forcing, a story of survival, hope, and the power of the human spirit in a world torn apart by climate change.
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‘The cataclysmic climate-emergency thriller we all need to read ? this is where it all begins. My heart was in my mouth every second of the way’
Reader Review
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‘Compelling, concerning and completely engrossing ? a book that demands your attention and your action. A must-read’ Jen Med’s Book Reviews
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Praise for The Forcing
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‘Provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifying’Â SciFi Now
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‘Announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher’Â Tim Glister
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‘A novel that might have actually predicted our future’Â Ewan Morrison
‘The book I’ve been waiting and hoping for?’ Paul Waters
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‘A riveting eco-thriller [that] paints a realistic picture of our future if society as a whole continues to ignore scientific warnings about global warming’ Crime Fiction Lover
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‘Fierce, thoughtful, deeply humane and always compelling’ David Whish-Wilson