Series: Book 1 in the Europe series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
'Europe in Autumn' is a thriller of espionage and the
future which reads like the love child of John le Carre and
Franz Kafka. Rudi is a cook in a Krakow restaurant, but when his boss
asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he s
trapped in, a new career - part spy, part people-smuggler -
begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu
pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations,
duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy
organisation "Les Coureurs des Bois," Rudi is schooled in
espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a
sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line,
goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must
attempt a rescue. With so many nations to work in, and
identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across
Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin
and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a
conspiracy begins to wind itself around him. With kidnapping,
double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi
begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and
counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another
entirely different reality might be pulling the
strings...