The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

Narrated by: Tim Key

Summer 1989, deep in the English countryside—during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . .

Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men—Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable friend Redbone—set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.

Under cover of darkness, they traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, painstakingly avoiding damaging the wheat to yield designs so intricate that their overnight appearances inspire awe amongst a mystified public.

And as the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation—and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.

But as harvest-time beckons—and as media and the authorities begin to take too much interest in their work—Calvert and Redbone have to race against time to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived: the Honeycomb Double Helix.

©2022 Benjamin Myers (P)2022 Tantor

Moving writing

A moving story about two men, their living experiences, and works of art. The author writes poetically.

Out of such a simple story comes a deep, complex and thought provoking drama.

Two men making crop circles did not sound like a book that would keep me riveted to the end, but it did. The writing flowed like water down a mountain spring, and I drank it up.

Nothing at all.

What a snooze fest. Monotone reading. Emotionless. Because there is zero inflection in the readers voice, you thoughts drift off to more entertaining thoughts. I didn’t get halfway through the book before finally deleting it or suffer having my ears bleed.