Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson

Europe in Autumn (The Fractured Europe Sequence)

by Dave Hutchinson

Europe as we know it is gone.

Devastated by a flu pandemic and crippled by economic collapse, the continent has fractured into countless tiny nations, a fragile web of shifting alliances seething with espionage and strange new technologies.

In a small restaurant in Krakow, chef Rudi is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois, a shadowy organisation that will move anything across any state line – for a price.

Soon, Rudi is in a world of high-risk smuggling operations, where kidnappings and double-crosses are as natural as a map that constantly redraws itself.

Reviewed by viking2917 on

4 of 5 stars

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A delicious near-future espionage thriller set in a (maybe?) alternate-history eastern Europe. Alan Furst meets Ian McDonald. Recommended. Gets a little uneven towards the end.

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