A conspiracy is afoot and Jake Carter finds himself smack in the midst of it. Strange signs are emerging, both through the natural world and manmade. In fact, the sun itself appears to be failing and a worldwide blackout has everyone predicting the end of the world. Jake is dragged into a hidden world when he receives a phone call from an ex-girlfriend asking for help. Can Jake survive when the stakes are worldwide?

SUNFAIL is an intriguing and fast-paced story. In fact, I could easily envision SUNFAIL as a movie as author Steven Savile has a gift for crafting exciting action scenes. Even more stunning, however, is Steven Savile's talent at producing eerie scenes in the midst of the familiar. Whether the scenery is the New York City subway or underwater, the incredible details and eloquent phrasing create just the right sort of ambiance to make the worldwide conspiracy theory seem plausible.

Steven Savile weaves together a wickedly clever tale in which the action never relents. Jake is the sort of main character who will appeal to readers of action stories. He's working as a NYC electrician but has a background in Special Forces. His skills and prowess are outstanding, perhaps a little more so than I typically like as I'm more a fan of flawed heroes. If you like your stories fast paced and full of various prophecies and conspiracy theories, then look no further than SUNFAIL.

Book Summary

Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall dead from the sky. Even the sun itself is failing. As darkness descends all hell breaks loose, terrorists strike hard and fast, taking out the army base at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn.

Jake Carter, formerly Special Forces, is now an NYC subway electrician who finds himself dragged into a world of conspiracy and menace by a woman he hasn't spoken to in over a decade. When Carter finds two young men spraying graffiti across the subway station walls, he realizes these marks aren't gang tags or band names, they are a message, a call to arms spelled out in a lost language. The Hidden are communicating with each other.

Carter must now answer some impossible questions: How do you fight an enemy you cannot see? How do you stop some of the richest and most powerful men in the world when they own the shadows? And most important of all, how do you stay alive when the world around you is dying?

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