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Darkest Days by Stanley Gallon
02/08/2008 . Source: Paul Hanley 
pub: Pan MacMillan. 516 page paperback. £ 6.99 (UK). ISBN: 978-0-230-015990-9). Buy Darkest Days in the USA - or Buy Darkest Days in the UK  check out website: www.panmacmillan.com , www.myspace.com/stanley_gallon and www.stanleygallon.com
The dark thriller is the first book by Stanley Gallon and is set in the near future where a US President is killed in an apparently accidental air crash. Nuclear bombs are detonated in Yellowstone Park triggering an enormous volcanic eruption which not only kills millions but which triggers a nuclear winter. As temperatures drop around the world, crops fail and countries fight over what resources are left. America is run by the former Vice-President who is a man with a murky past and unsavoury business acquaintances.
It might be better to call this a mystery rather than a thriller as slowly the various actions by the key characters in the book are revealed showing their part in the unfolding disaster. America, for this is told from an American viewpoint, is not only devastated by blizzards but by the reversal of all their freedoms as the US Government, claiming the necessities of expediency, becoming more and more draconian in their actions both at home and abroad.
The book is full of action but this is set against the politics which gradually create a more and more totalitarian regime. It is an excellent book and well worth reading. I look forward to Mr. Gallon's next book.
Paul Hanley
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