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Having thoroughly enjoyed my two previous excursions into the dark mind of Adam Nevill, and with the promise of a near future setting and a foreboding premise, I was eager to devour this book. Adam sets the horrific story of a father searching for his abducted daughter in a world ravaged by ecological disaster.
Unusually I think it is this setting that will give me the most nightmares. Intensively researched, this is a future that the author clearly believes possible, if not inevitable. Should you share this view, you cannot help but be extremely disturbed by this vivid depiction. The helplessness this engenders is echoed by the claustrophobic journey endured by the never named father.
In clumsier hands this could still have been an interesting book, but this is more than that. The style is literary and gothic, blending the extreme with the almost surreal. Imaginative descriptive skills lambast you with more shades of black than you previously thought possible. The pace is relentless, making for a genuine ‘page turner�, tight editing ensuring that the densely woven prose never strays from hammering the reader into submission. I apologise for waxing somewhat lyrical about this novel, but suffice to say that it is extremely good. Recommended for the strong of heart.