The Forcing Trilogy
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Get ALL THREE books in the riveting, thought-provoking, shockingly authentic The Forcing Trilogy from international bestselling author - and leading environmental scientist - Paul E. Hardisty in one GREAT VALUE set!
In a world ravaged by climate collapse, power has fallen to the young and the generations blamed for the disaster are cast out. From exile and escape to a desperate search for the truth behind the catastrophe, and a teenage girl carrying the last fragments of human knowledge, this powerful, gripping dystopian trilogy about devastation, survival and the fragile possibility of hope confronts the cost of the climate emergency and the fight to rebuild
'Paul Hardisty is a visionary' Luke McCallin
`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world¿ The Times
'Very plausible and terrifyingly so' SciFi Now
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The Forcing (Book One)
In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom ... at devastating cost...
The Descent (Book Two)
A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster ... The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing.
The Hope (Book Three)
In a future devastated by climate collapse, a secret library is destroyed and a teenage girl gifted with perfect memory becomes the last refuge of human knowledge, hunted by those in power as she fights to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.
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Praise for The Forcing Trilogy
'Announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher' Tim Glister
'A novel that might have actually predicted our future' Ewan Morrison
'Paul Hardisty is a fine writer' Lee Child
'The book I've been waiting and hoping for...' Paul Waters
'A riveting eco-thriller' Crime Fiction Lover
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Canadian Paul E Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey (where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeing the rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana'a. Paul is a university professor and CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The first four novels in his Claymore Straker series, The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear, Reconciliation for the Dead and Absolution all received great critical acclaim and The Abrupt Physics of Dying was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and Telegraph Thriller of the Year. Paul is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia.
