#Blogtour The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse

It's a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse.

'Greg Mosse’s debut novel The Coming Darkness, was a Sunday Times Thriller of 2022, and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month 2022 and widely reviewed. Mosse’s second novel The Coming Storm, sees the return of his anti-hero the French special agent Alex Lamarque, and is part of the new genre of “Cli-Fi Fiction” or Climate Change Fiction that is looking to predict what a post climate change future might look like.'

About the Author

A theatre director, playwright and actor Greg Mosse is the founder and director of the Criterion New Writing programme at the Criterion Theatre in London, running workshops in script development to a diverse community of writers, actors and directors. In addition, since 2015, Greg has written, produced and stage 25 plays and musicals.

Greg set up both the Southbank Centre Creative Writing School - an open access program of evening classes delivering MA level workshops - and the University of Sussex MA in Creative Writing at West Dean College which he taught for 4 years. 

The husband of the bestselling novelist Kate Mosse, Kate’s hit novel Labyrinth was inspired by a house that Greg and his mother bought together in the French medieval city of Carcassonne, where the couple and their children spent many happy summers. Following the success of Labyrinth, Greg created the innovative readers-and-writers website mosselabyrinth.co.uk MosseLabyrinth. The first of its kind MosseLabrynth was the world’s first online accessible 3D world, and the inspiration for Pottermore - the popular Harry Potter website. 

A multilinguist, Greg has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid and has worked as both an interpreter at a variety of international institutions and a teacher in the UK.

Greg and Kate live in Chichester, where Kate’s parents founded the Chichester Festival Theatre, they have two grown up children. Visit @GregMosse on X

About the book

In this chilling dystopian thriller climate change is coming for us all.

Greg Mosse’s debut novel The Coming Darkness, was a Sunday Times Thriller of 2022, and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month 2022. Mosse’s second novel The Coming Storm, sees the return of his anti-hero the French special agent Alex Lamarque.

By 2037 the world’s been torn apart by global warming, religious wars and viruses. Against this turbulent setting French special agent Alex Lamarque is hunting eco terrorists attacking energy services and supply lines.

Battling with personal tragedy on one hand, and the intrusion of new-found celebrity on the other, Alex must re-emerge from self-imposed exile to reunite with Mariam – the woman he loves – and Amaury – his truest friend – to face the fight of their lives.

From the streets of Paris, the lithium mines of Southern Mali, and the mighty Aswan Dam, they come up against forces whose intentions are as devious as they are malign. Time is against them, and there’s more at stake than ever. Can they survive The Coming Storm?

A massive new talent in British fiction, Greg Mosse’s storytelling is complex and finely crafted, combining twisting plotlines, intelligent dialogue and ambiguous characters, all skilfully brought together in an epic climax. Never before has dystopian fiction been so chillingly real.  

Review

This is the second book in The Coming Darkness, and where the first book was a preparation of the storm - now it's here. Was it just me or was this book darker, more morose and calculated? It absolutely leads into the futuristic dystopian aspect of a world and societies hit by the catastrophic changes of climate change. It's certainly more concerning and frightening because it is written in the impending future and we can already see where the road is headed in our real life scenario.

The author creates a variety of threads - webs of collusion, of connections and of common ground - each thread its own microcosm of the fallout. The characters also seem to take more of a centre stage, as we delve into motivation, family ties and personal accountability.

I found some of the responses to the immediate situations and impending crisis quite interesting. Possibly because the constant threat, the steady flow of threats and danger has made the majority of people desensitised to violence and death. That includes the main characters, despite how much the contrary appears to be true.

It's a captivating piece of dystopian fiction, which commandeers the stage with a believable concept - some parts we could eventually be living one day - some we are battling at the moment. It's complex, and yet simultaneously easy to comprehend. 

Buy The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher: Moonflower Books | pub date 25th April 2024 | £9.99| Paperback Original. Buy at Amazon com.