SFF

The War in the Dark

by Nick Setchfield
Titan. Jul. 2018. 352p. ISBN 9781785657092. pap. $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9781785657108. SF
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In 1963, as the Cold War between the East and West heats up, Christopher Winter, a British intelligence officer, is heavily involved in typical James Bond missions. Then a routine assignment turns terribly wrong; he loses his partner; he's drugged by his agency; a department leader is murdered at home; and Winter is forced to shoot and kill his wife when she tries to attack him. He is also seeing people with liquid black eyes and experiencing other events that definitely fall into the paranormal realm. Winter finds that the West and the East are looking to use paranormal elements as advantages for war in the physical world. The assignments start taking deeper and stranger turns as each side begins to search for the key that will unlock the proverbial Pandora's box of powers before the other side does.
VERDICT A combination of James Bond, Indiana Jones, and The X-Files set in a post-World War II world, this sf/alternative history debut will appeal to fans who enjoy similar genre mashups.
Reviewed by Mark Hanson, Maranatha Baptist Univ. Lib., Watertown, WI , Jul 01, 2018
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