Book Review: The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse

Published November 7, 2022 | By Chris Parish

We are pleased to be welcoming Greg Mosse to Novel Kicks. He’s here with the blog tour for his new novel, The Coming Darkness.

Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust – not his secretive lover Mariam, not even his old mentor, Professor Fayard, the man at the centre of the web. He is ready to give up. But he can’t.

In search of the truth, Alex must follow the trail through an ominous spiral of events, from a string of brutal child murders to a chaotic coup in North Africa. He rapidly finds himself in a heart-thumping race against chaos and destruction. He could be the world’s only hope of preventing THE COMING DARKNESS . . .

*****

Alexandre is in the French external security service, hunting for eco-terrorists.

He doesn’t know who to trust, not even his lover or his former mentor.

However, he can’t give up his search for the truth.

This book really hooked me from the first page. It’s fast paced and has multiple story lines running throughout. I wondered how they were all going to converge and couldn’t wait to find out.

Even though this is the first of his novels, you can tell that Greg Mosse is a seasoned writer. This book, in my opinion is very well written.

It offers short pieces of information that skilfully drive the plot forward which meant that I wanted to keep reading to find out how it was going to end.

I liked that, despite this being set in 2037, it has a contemporary feel, especially as we face life post COVID lockdown.

This book draws some interesting parallels between political movements of the past demonstrating how history has the potential to repeat itself and that humanity doesn’t always learn from its mistakes.

The Coming Darkness is a fantastic thrill of a novel with twists and unpredictable turns.

I am now a fan of this author and I look forward to seeing what Greg Mosse does next.

*****

About Greg Mosse:

Greg Mosse is currently the founder and leader of the Criterion New Writing script development programme at the Criterion Theatre, London, giving free opportunities in script development to a diverse community of writers, actors and directors.

Since 2015, he has written and produced 25 plays and musicals, often in collaboration. Over the same period, with Lou Doye, Doye Mosse Productions has created and financed an incredible range of traditional, VR and augmented reality story-telling experiences.

During the coronavirus lockdowns, he wrote two-and-a-half novels, of which THE COMING DARKNESS will be the first to be published on 10th November 2022 by Moonflower Publishing.

Say hello to Greg via his website, Instagram and Twitter.

Click to pre-order/buy The Coming Darkness on Amazon UK and Waterstones.