Europe at Dawn

Dave Hutchinson

Book 4 of The Fractured Europe Sequence

Language: English

Publisher: Solaris

Published: Jan 1, 2018

Pages: 283

Description:

THE PHENOMENAL CONCLUSION TO THE FRACTURED EUROPE SERIES.

In Tallinn, Alice – a junior Scottish diplomat – is drawn into an incomprehensible plot spanning decades. In the Aegean, young refugee Benno makes a desperate break for freedom and finds himself in a strange new life.

On the canals of England, a fleet of narrow boats is gathering. Rudi, now a seasoned Coureur, finds himself drawn away from the kitchen one last time as he sets out with his ally Rupert in pursuit of a dead man.

"One of the UK’s foremost writers…The best fictional response to Brexit yet published, and Europe at Dawn is a superbly judged conclusion." - The Guardian

About the Author

Dave Hutchinson was born in Sheffield. After reading American Studies at the University of Nottingham, he became a journalist. He's the author of five collections of short stories and one novel, and his novella The Push was shortlisted for the 2010 BSFA award for short fiction. He has also edited two anthologies and co-edited a third. His short story The Incredible Exploding Man featured in the first Solaris Rising anthology, and appeared in the Year's Best Science Fiction collection. He lives in north London with his wife and several cats.

The phenomenal conclusion to the Fractured Europe sequence.

Alice works at the Scottish embassy in Tallinn in Estonia as a member of the Cultural Section. When two men bring her the jeweled skull of a Scottish saint, her world gets turned on its head, and she becomes the latest recruit to Les Coureurs des Bois.

On a Greek island, Benno is just one of hundreds of refuges dreaming of a new life in continental Europe. After hatching an audacious escape plan, he may just get his dream, but at the price of serving some powerful mysterious new masters.

Rudi and Rupert, the seasoned Coureur and the scientist in exile from a pocket universe, discover that someone they thought long dead is very much still alive. Not only that, but the now defunct Line - the railway that once bisected the European continent - may be being used for nefarious means.

Proudly presenting the final chapter in the Fractured Europe sequence.