The Janus Effect [Paperback]

It's a long time since I read anything remotely like this

Nice crisp prose, emotional intelligence and a story that kept me reading. I enjoyed (it) a lot.

If you like intelligent science fiction adventure stories it's a good read.

2040. Britain is at war - With itself. A military dictatorship rules from London. There is only one TV channel - English TV- controlled by the government. Overhead, in geostationary orbit, squats Eurocom One, a space station run by joint European and Russian big business, from whom the British government has rented space for secret experiments on population and crowd control.Compulsory identity cards are a reality with information in them that the bearer does not know anything about and may be inaccurate, or altered to suit the government's purposes. In the south, on the Isle of Wight is a huge concentration camp of economic migrants waiting to be forcibly shipped home. In the West is fortress Anglesey, an island wide prison for political prisoners. The East End of London is flooded, following a massive swell in the North Sea in the winter of 2039. The sea level has risen, drowning parts of the south coast. On Guernsey, buried deep in the caves tunnelled by the !
Nazis in the second World War, is Project Alpha. A man wakes up in a military prison hospital.He is accused of being a terrorist, but he remembers nothing. 20 years have been a wiped from his memory He is a 40 year old man with the memories of a man in his twenties. When sprung by the members of his group the complex relationship between him and his common-law wife and his female bodyguard have to be rediscovered. When he is offered the chance to regain his memory he has to make some difficult choices as they come with strings attached. He is only one to have penetrated Project Alpha.. If only he could remember what it was... We are what we remember.

The Janus Effect is a thrilling novel of a future Britain, one that could too easily come true.

2040 - Britain is a dictatorship, divorced from Europe. The Genome Project has been subverted to the service of Eugenics, and taken advantage of by the insurance industry.

A man wakes up in a prison hospital; twenty years have been wiped from his memory. He is told that he is a terrorist with a name that is unfamiliar to him. He has tampered with Project Alpha. If only he could remember what it was...

Alan Cash is a member of the Birmingham Science Fiction Writers Group and has been writing Science Fiction for some thirty years. After a lifetime spent working as a solicitor, he now teaches English as a foreign language.

Messages from the Past

She was the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen. He had always been attracted to small, slim, dark girls. She fitted this description perfectly.
Moss had answered the door to the safe house, after checking through the spy-hole in the reinforced steel. A young woman stood on the threshold. He could hear her breathing rapidly, when she spoke to him via the entry-phone. He flicked on the porch light just long enough for him to study her face.
"Are you the man they call Loratu?" she asked nervously."If you are, can I come in? I'm in danger."
Moss pressed the door-release button and she squeezed through the gap before the door was properly open. He hurriedly closed the door behind her. Berbek's troops were liable to come along the road at any moment.
"Who wants to know?"