The Wicked Extinction Of Light (The Commonstate, #1) / The Commonstate (ePub)

London, The Home Isles, Today...

170 years after the British East India Company stole the keys to the British Empire, The Commonstate is now the world's sole superpower.

But cracks are forming... And through them come untraceable whispers of insurrectionists -- a first in this state's brutal history.

Forced into weeding out the truth of this threat is DAMIEN CARVER -- an unremarkable pen-pusher with an understated talent for building spy networks in London's crime-plagued masses.

He coerces a gradually entangling alliance into existence. HARRIET, the black-marketeer thief tapped into the city's underworld. FOX, the empathy-wracked, prized interrogator with access to high-end intelligence.

And Carver's boots-on-faces, drug-addicted, LT. MULLEN of the universally despised Militia, the state's civil police.

Their investigation faces a forest of obstacles. Beyond finding the elusive insurrectionists they must infiltrate London's violent Crime Guilds and outplay the inimitable YENKA, head of the state's secret police, the Sekker.

And then there's the regime itself, the ruling body of the Buro – a paranoid, deeply factional cabal of murderous kleptocrats. Most with interests to hide. Amongst them, is Carver's direct report, KILEY.

As with his fragile team, for Carver, survival (with his humanity intact) never mind solving this puzzle, means outfoxing deepening packs of wolves... until he begins to become one, himself.

The Wicked Extinction Of Light represents the first of nine episodes, part of The Commonstate, now a TV series in development.