The Darkness Calling – Joe Coates

Aug 30, 2023

The Darkness Calling – Joe Coates 

 

The Darkness Calling is a gritty, stylish, action-packed novel from start to finish. Populated with vividly portrayed characters, thrilling moments and plenty of dark humour, it is brilliantly written, and will keep you turning the pages far into the night.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, J.J Connelly, Ben Aaronovitch, Iain Banks and Warren Ellis.

When a contract goes out on the head of a human-trafficker living in one of London's most exclusive suburbs, romantically deprived hitman, Archie Nyx, assumes it's just another day at the office. In a profession that usually comes with minimal moral high ground, being paid a hefty sum to expunge an excrescence like Andras Janos is as close to a good day at work as Archie gets. It's a nice thought, but when the hit goes south and the unexpected elements rear their heads, Archie must track down the mysterious client who seems to want more than just Janos dead.

Beautiful but hard-boiled Detective Inspector Valentina Galanti is back at work at the Met after an accident that tore her life apart. Her old friend and boss, Detective Superintendent Jack McNeill, assigns Val to a brutal multiple homicide by way of a welcome back. Val embraces the carnage as a pleasing escape from the grief and fury that are threatening to overwhelm her.

By chance, or so it seems, Archie and Val meet one afternoon. Lies and deceptions breed more lies and deceptions, with the assassin and copper having no idea that they are both working towards the middle of the same problem from opposite sides.

Set in a near-future London not too dissimilar to the one we know, The Darkness Calling is a soft sci-fi novel that explores whether any silver lining can be found in the midst of a son's hatred for his father, a mother's heart-crushing grief, and the place where the bullets fly.

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Subgenres: Adventure, Crime & Mystery, Romance

Date first published:  May 21, 2021

On Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Biography: Born and raised in the UK, emigrating to New Zealand as a teenager, and living in Australia, Canada and France – it's, perhaps, no mystery why travel has had such an impact on my life—and my writing. I work as a professional ghostwriter, writing novels for USA Today bestsellers and indie publishing houses in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and the UAE. I've always been a voracious reader and, from an early age, I've always wanted to move people through words. What with zipping about the globe – from Guatemala to Jordan, Luxembourg to Iceland, Fiji to Cuba – it's no surprise that the first novel I wrote involved a journey into the unknown. I love to travel, and think it's such an important part of helping to develop and find out who we are. You also get mixed up in some pretty bizarre situations and meet some truly interesting and unique characters. To me, it is the ultimate inspiration. I've written for magazines and websites and for marketing companies. I sustained myself through university writing as a restaurant critic. But nothing compares to the freedom and delight that I get from writing fiction; creating worlds and characters and relationships. My first novel, Out of the Dust, was a fantasy-western story that I wanted to resonate with everyone and anyone who was keen for an armchair adventure. it was inspired by my life working as a cattle-hand in rural Australia; full of blood and beautiful scenery, revenge and grief and sacrifice. It's now with an agent in London being shopped around to publishing houses. But I've always had a soft spot for sci-fi...

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Cover artist name: Molly Coates

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