The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse
SOMETIMES THE CALM IS DEADLIER THAN THE STORM.
The hotly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times Thriller of the Year The Coming Darkness sees the return of special agent Alexandre Lamarque.
He may have saved the world from darkness, but he knows his work is not done yet.
There’s still a terrorist threat out there, pulling together the strands of a new and even more destructive conspiracy to bring the world to its knees.
Battling with personal tragedy on one hand, and the intrusion of new-found celebrity on the other, Alex and his allies must re-emerge from self-imposed exile to face the fight of their lives.
From the streets of Paris, the lithium mines of Southern Mali, and the mighty Aswan Dam, they come up against forces whose intentions are as devious as they are malign. Time is against them, and there’s more at stake than ever. Can they survive the coming storm?
About the author
Greg Mosse is a 'writer and encourager of writers', husband of international bestselling author, Kate Mosse. He has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid as an interpreter and translator, but grew up in rural south-west Sussex. In 2014, he founded the Criterion New Writing playwriting programme in the heart of the West End and, since then, has produced more than 25 of his own plays and musicals. His creative writing workshops are highly sought after at festivals at home and abroad. His superbly reviewed novel, The Coming Darkness, was published by Moonflower in 2022. Hodder & Stoughton will release his gripping Maisie Cooper mystery series in July 2023.
Review
‘The Coming Storm’ is gripping read, that makes the reader question how much is fact rather than fiction, is packed full of action and I devoured it! I loved ‘The Coming Darkness’ and I was very excited to pick this one up and it definitely did not disappoint, it whets the appetite for more. I would normally say you can pick up any book as a stand-alone but in this case I do think it would be preferential to have read the first book before coming into this one. Don’t get me wrong you can pick this up as a new reader but your reading experience would be enhanced if you knew the plot from the first one, plus it’s a cracking read, so win-win!
We pick up with our protagonists not long after the events in the first book, they are still convalescing and now that the results of the attacks are becoming clearer, they realise that there is still work to be done. The world now see Alex as ‘the man who saved the world’, Mariam and Amaury, his partner and friend and colleagues are also about to get back to work. The major threat might have been stopped but there will always be those who still believe in the cause and will continue to try and uproot society in any way they can.
When I read the first book I don’t think I had heard of the term ‘cli-Fi’ thriller but I definitely have now and ‘The Coming Storm’ fits this genre to a tea. It’s set in the near future and the world is still running head first into climate change and the environment disaster it brings. The majority of the action, reactions etc boil down to being a result of the effects of climate change. We are seeing it from an espionage perspective, however, which is a unique take on this type of plot line. In a way we are seeing the results of our actions now and it poses many questions for the reader to ponder on. There is a real sense of this is what might come, if we don’t change our actions now.
If you thought Alex was wary in the first book, his senses are on high alert in this book! He doesn’t go anywhere without first scoping out the location, the environment near him and whether there is danger present. Reader, there is always danger present! (That sentence should come with an order to read it in the voice of Arrested Developments narrator!) Alex is a brilliant protagonist, he is focused, observant and willing to get the job done no matter what. Mariam is the same, but her story this time focuses on her personal life and Amaury is given the task of being the ‘public face’ of the team. Of course, all their stories end up intertwining and racing to a thrilling ending! I am now desperate to know what happens as that ending…
Let me know if you pick this one up!
