A Plague of Dissent

You have stuck to your diet. You have quit smoking cold turkey. You exercise religiously. Every resolution you've ever made has been successful. But, trying to resist reading Nic Taylor's A Plague of Dissent once you've begun reading it is futile. Nic Taylor writes in A Plague of Dissent of a type of Brave New World that exists today in the U.K. The media and the government are the Big Brothers of Taylor's suspenseful, page-turning novel. It's a well-oiled plot that the debut author handles like a seasoned veteran. The action begins from the very first chapter, and doesn't let up for the entire book. Taylor has delivered a whopping good tale that kept me in suspense right up to the end. His masterful prose and intimate knowledge of crime fighting in the UK is on par with Ian Fleming. Every scene is so well described, throughout, that I felt like I was right there. It's a consummate storyteller that he is! A fast paced thriller, bursting with political intrigue and corruption. It paints a picture of the UK, where media companies hack into personal communications at will, in search of their next headline. Of politicians lining their pockets with falsified expense claims and crooked practices operate within the police force. Where government contracts can be bought and sold by those that have the Prime Ministers ear, that to, on sale for the right price; and where banks and corporations make millions at the expense of the man in the street. I just love it when the first page of a book grabs me by the throat, gets my heart pumping and terrifies the hell out of me. That's exactly what Nic Taylor did in A Plague of Dissent, and by page 3 we had our first dead body. Everything just went to hell in a hand-basket from there. A story of greed and corruption; where riots and civil unrest are turning the country upside down and a small group of men attempting to use this anarchy that is spreading across the country to further their own agendas. Into this nightmare scenario are dragged a young man Adam, his girl friend Isobel and his brother Dan a professional rugby player and England wing forward. They are pursued by the faceless men who believe they are party to information that could compromise their mission and have two choices, to run or, to turn and fight for their lives. Be Scared, Be Very Scared' What the title refers to is the slow realisation - whilst reading the novel - that it is not only topical and the socio/historical events described very close to the bone, but the fictional elements are more than plausible.

About the Author :
Nic grew up in Penzance, Cornwall and spent these formative years either hanging out on the beach surfing and diving or taking photographs. At the age of twenty he talked himself into a job as an architectural assistant with a prestigious practice in London and spent the next seven years designing banks and partying in the city. By the age of twenty seven, the wander lust hit him and he headed off to Montego Bay in Jamaica, there he both ran a diving school and freelanced as an architect for hoteliers. For five years he managed to keep this up and himself narrowly out of trouble. Until after one too many close calls, he decided it was time to leave. He boarded a plane and headed for Singapore to visit a Singaporean girl he'd got to know. Singapore or more pointedly the Singaporean girl managed to calm Nic down, somewhat, and for a dozen years he based himself out off Singapore working in various fields. He taught diving and escorted dive parties to remote locations throughout the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Indonesian archipelago. He designed the odd hotel or two in the Maldives and Thailand and expanded his photographic repertoire to become one of the foremost photographers in the region. He also diversified, into the moving picture industry to eventually shoot several short films and documentaries including Burning Earth for the Discovery Channel. Where he spent many weeks camped out in the burning jungles of Borneo and hung out of helicopters with a camera on his shoulder. Nic now spends his time equally divided between his research, his architectural design practice and the Plymstock Albion Oaks Rugby Club, where he coaches the Under 15's, runs several projects including coaching rugby to the disabled, and using rugby as social inclusion vehicle to get kids off the streets. And his writing; his first book "A Plague of Dissent" was published in early 2013 and he is presently working on the sequel to A Plague Of Dissent, Gaia's Warriors. In addition he is working two other titles, The Hope and The Blogger.