Harkaway presents us with a hell that is left when the weapon to end all
wars instead ends the world as we know it. Humanity in this future is
confined to the Livable zone: a thin strip alongside the Jorgmund Pipe
which sprays out a substance known as FOX. Outside this safe area there
are horrors, people don't stay people, there are mutants, all the dark
things we were afraid of in the forests of our imaginations. Our
narrator rides with lifelong friend Gonzo and the rest of the crew of
roughnecks known as the Haulage and HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting
Comapny of Exmoor County, corporate HQ the Nameless Bar. They are the
troubleshooters of this new world and when the Jorgmund Pipe
catastrophically explodes they are the ones sent into fix the breach.
But something terrible happens to Gonzo and everything that we readers
thought we knew gets turned on its head with a sickening lurch.
Narration moves between the past, to life growing up with Gonzo in cosy
Cricklewood Cove, school and finding peace with martial arts, across a
glittering cast of characters moving across the post apocalyptic
landscape of this new world to a terrible truth coiled at the heart of
the Jorgmund Corporation. Bewitching and often confusing, but confused
is where you should be cos then you start thinking
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