Anarchy

Following up his spectacular debut, Advent, was a tall order, but Treadwell manages to astound readers once again in this second installment in his original fantasy trilogy. Goose is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who has been transferred to the sleepy village of Alice in British Columbia. Nothing ever happens in Alice until one evening a prisoner escapes a locked cell during Goose's watch. Across the pond in rural England, a lonely, isolated young woman decides to leave her home of 13 years and venture into the heretofore unexplored and terrifying world. In London, chaos reigns: riots, burning buildings, strange issues with telephones, TV and the Internet, and end-of-days prophets screaming from every street corner. A mother leaves it all behind to seek her son who disappeared weeks ago. Weaving various threads together into one coherent story is one of Treadwell's talents. There are dark and powerful forces at work, guiding each character's journey to a staggering common culmination.