Europe at Midnight

The Fractured Europe Sequence, Book 2

By: Dave Hutchinson

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Europe is crumbling. The Xian Flu pandemic and ongoing economic crises have fractured the European Union, the borderless Continent of the Schengen Agreement is a distant memory, and new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare.

Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests; it's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has come who may hold the key to unlocking the mystery.

©2016 Dave Hutchinson (P)2018 Recorded Books

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Dave Hutchinson’s Europe at Midnight is the second installment in his Fractured Europe sequence. Eu-rope continues to devolve (due to the flu plague) with new nations and polities springing up overnight. At the same time, the ‘other’ Europe has shenanigans going on within an academic center. Jim is in-volved with the intelligence service in England and gets handed an investigation involving a stabbing on a London bus with a victim offering some juicy intel.

Hutchinson paints a depressing picture of Europe as a pandemic leads to the dissolution of nation states. At the same time, more history on the other Europe as well as its involvement in the flu epi-demic. There is a whole new cast of characters relative to the first installment.

The narration is good with solid character distinction. Pacing is smooth.