‘DEVASTATION’

by Daniel D. Longdon

Published by Gingernut Books Ltd. 2011

In this unusual novel, the author has cleverly created the mythical land of Albion. This is no fairy story for children, the squeamish, or sensitive adults.

But if you like a bit of bite and raw savagery in your reading matter, then this gripping adult yarn is especially for you. Right from the opening lines, violent action leaps off the page, grabs you by the throat and draws you in to the story. Beware the Skavites are coming!

Family man; Jason de Silva is compelled to make choices that will affect his whole life as he confronts gangland terrorism. He doesn’t wish to appear a coward in front of his children and feels somebody needs to make a stand. Events quickly take a turn for the worse and then: ‘Cometh the hour, Cometh the man!’

Startling parallels could easily be drawn with the problems facing us today in modern Britain as we realise the thin veil of civilisation can be so easily swept away, by rioting, vigilante patrols and mob rule…leading to chaos.

In the world of Albion, the rights of an ordinary citizen, to protect hearth and home and family life should be sacrosanct, but have been eroded by weak government: hell-bent on appeasing the criminal fraternity.

I read the first ten chapters before stopping to draw breath and imagine the mayhem and uncompromising language will give literary-purists the vapours and have them reaching for their smelling salts long before the end, but with ‘DEVASTATION’ the end is surely not the end, only the end of the beginning.