Last Light

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780752886152
• ISBN10: 0752886150
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-07-25
• Publisher: Orion Pub Co

Summary

The near future.A series of religious riots - stirred up by the destruction of several ancient mosques - stops oil production across the Middle East. Pipelines leading from the Caspian Sea are sabotaged, oil facilities in Venezuela are disabled.In the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace, things begin to unravel everywhere. It seems someone was behind this - it was coordinated.Andy Sutherland, an oil engineer, becomes stranded in Iraq with a company of soldiers when the British army is forced to hastily pull out. He's desperate to find a way home to his children.His wife, Jenny, was away up in the north of England when events rapidly developed. And now with internal transport links closed down, there's no easy way to get back home to London and the kids.The children are on their own in London when things begin to turn ugly and spiral out of control; food riots, raging fires, looting, rape and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into a lawless and chaotic vision of Hell.A man arrives in England the night before the first riots in the Gulf. He's out to track down and silence the one man who might reveal to the world those behind this global disaster. For they, must remain secret. They are behind this oil strangulation and have been behind countless other significant tipping points of the past.

Author Biography

Alex Scarrow is the author of A Thousand Suns. He is the brother of historical novelist Simon Scarrow.