About
Martin Probert Davies is a professional software developer, a semi-professional musician, an amateur father and an even more amateur writer. He lives on the Jurassic Coast amongst the rolling hills of Dorset deep in the English Westcountry, wondering what on earth he has done to deserve it.
Books and Publications
In the near future a new President comes to power, overwhelmingly chosen by a deprived population. The only problem is, on paper at least, she doesn't seem to exist... So is it the people who have provided the biggest mandate in history, or is it a talking dog?
Finn Llewelyn, a talented programmer struggling to find meaning after a personal loss and fixating on the President and the apathy he believes is responsible, is head-hunted by Grace, a member of The Renaissance, a resistance group working undercover in a world of surveillance where the only place left to hide is in plain sight.
Together they investigate the Personal Group, a company shrouded in mystery, which having built a media-harvesting dating app to connect people and register sexual consent, now produces an automated voting tool with unexplained links to the President and a viral talking dog.
With some inside help they locate the Group's now destitute founder, only to discover that his company has been seized by the enigmatic Dr Squirreltone, a genius intellect who has also managed to unobtrusively usurp the One Nation government using nothing more than a few popular social media memes, and install a new leader who, officially at least, doesn't appear to exist.
As Squirreltone avoids detection, a deadly flu wreaks havoc on the increasingly deprived population. But what if the greatest threat isn't natural? As the boundaries between reality and the virtual world start to disappear, Finn and Grace start to wonder who - or what - is actually in control, and to what lengths they will go to keep it.
With the country ravished by poverty and a weaponised disease, and on the verge of an artificial civil war where good and evil are inseparable, can order be restored and catastrophe prevented? Or perhaps that's exactly what the Renaissance wants…
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Norcalben
Amazon Review
Almost science fiction, almost political, almost social. I felt as though I could see elements of the past, present, and a future which my not be all too different.
J
Amazon Review
I've been freed from a reading slump! A fast paced story with plenty of twists and turns. A dystopian political thriller that has more in common with our contemporary politics than we'd like. A thought experiment into apathy and the nature of participation. One for all bar room ranters, soap box dwellers and political nerds. I absolutely loved it.
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