Max Straker
England, 2029. Rising unemployment, inflation & taxation are causing economic hardship for all but the rich. Uncontrolled immigration and geopolitical conflicts are destroying social cohesion leading to civil unrest. Urban decay is everywhere. Law and order is collapsing. The government and politicians are hated like never before. The British state is losing control. A Bataclan-style terrorist attack on a London nightclub sets in train a sequence of events - protests, riots, retaliatory violence that sets alight the fuse of England’s second civil war. This novel charts the start of the war from the perspectives of ordinary people that were there. Meet Jamil, a surgeon caught between two competing loyalties; Rob, Army veteran betrayed by the state pushed to the extreme; Jayden, a young man jolted from obedience to violence, and a host of other characters as they navigate the escalating chaos of a falling nation. This is Ignition, Book 1 of the England Aflame Trilogy.