Just to add a further dimension Rudi discovers there is a secret group known by the Community – lets imagine a group of middle class daily mail loving little Englanders who created a separate land for themselves and then by mysterious dimensional engineering hid their land in a strip across Europe for centuries– only now the Community is starting to cross over into our world. A lot of the Europe series has focused on Rudi – by day a chef but whose family connections has led him increasingly into the chequered world of coureurs and he’s now established himself as one of the more powerful non-elected people in this new world - reluctantly as despite his gift for this type of stagecraft he would much rather cook in his restaurant.
Into this Hutchinson has created the concept of the Coureurs Des Bois - a cross between smugglers and spies who are recruited across Europe to move items from a to b (often due to the new politics and alliances involving trips to j, w and p along the way).ĭue to the nature of moving these physical items without discovery there is a need for drop points, codes and secret rendezvous that mean the whole series has much more of a cold war feeling with the coureurs often rubbing up against various intelligence forces who don’t like the idea of a loosely formed independent enterprise that move secrets around.
Division is everywhere and has created a series of fiercely protected checkpoints across Europe.
It’s a near future tale of a Europe no longer joined in Union but where countries regions and even towns have increasingly split from each other. The Fractured Europe series that started with Europe in Autumn is I think one of the most relevant science fiction series to be published this decade. Introducing the Fractured Europe series:. Rudi, now a seasoned Coureur, finds himself drawn away from the kitchen one last time as he sets out with his ally Rupert in pursuit of a dead man. On the canals of England, a fleet of narrow boats is gathering. In the Aegean, young refugee Benno makes a desperate break for freedom and finds himself in a strange new life. In Tallinn, Alice – a junior Scottish diplomat – is drawn into an incomprehensible plot spanning decades.
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