Malcolm J. Wardlaw books in order

Since the financial armageddon, it’s been guns, gold and lots of slaves.

It is 2106. Seventy years have passed since our times collapsed in complete banking disaster. No one cares about over-population, mass extinctions or climate change any longer. The world is a post-apocalyptic paradise—for a few.

One of those ‘few’ is Donald Aldingford, a star barrister in his mid-thirties. Suddenly he is no longer one of the ‘few’ after being shot down and jailed for trespassing into private airspace. While in prison, he picks up disturbing rumors about his younger brother Lawrence, who disappeared without trace ten years earlier aged seventeen.

Donald takes a deeper interest in the world around him. He lifts stones. He peers behind dusty curtains. What he finds is horrifying and repugnant—the dreams of madmen come true. As he closes on the mystery of his disappeared brother, he pierces the last, most dangerous veil of a rotten society.

Escape to freedom or escape to hell?

Lawrence makes a desperate bid for escape across a winter wilderness where danger is patient and very sly. The best he can hope for is a death worth dying.

He does not know the outside world is changing. Revolution is in the air. The National Party has launched the Atrocity Commission to track down glory criminals like him. Its enquiries are exposing a brutal world that has existed for decades.

And that brutal world has Sarah-Kelly and her National Party in its sights!

When the shooting starts, there will be no place for neutrals. Even honest Donald will have to take sides, or perish.

Not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes it’s a deadly trap.

Lawrence has sworn to destroy the Value System of Nightminster. Donald plots a counter-revolution against the fanatics of the National Party. Sarah-Kelly is determined to expose the crimes of the glory trusts. Then suddenly all three are on the run for their lives!

Despite their mutual loathing, Donald and Lawrence embark on a long and dangerous winter journey hoping to gain asylum with the Church of Nuclear Science. On the way, they discover not all that glitters is gold—sometimes it’s a deadly trap.

Meanwhile, Sarah-Kelly’s Atrocity Commission is reaching farther and farther from London.

The truth of the Value System is too outrageous to believe.

Lawrence has won the support of the Shellingfield dynasty to attack the Value System. But first, he has to prove to the world it’s as evil as he claims. He must get living evidence.

As the first tribune of the Protectorate, Nightminster has tasted power, and it’s a taste he likes. He has every intention of getting more of it. His alliance with the Krossington dynasty makes him a formidable force. He’s going to purge the Value System and have Bishop Donald Aldingford indicted for the murder of Julius Shellingfield. He’ll win the support of the glory trusts by putting Sarah-Kelly Newman on trial for mass-murder.

With no enemies left, what can stop him achieving supreme power?

Will might prove right?

Nightminster has shown indefatigable will and astounding gall; again and again he has thwarted efforts to defeat him. He still believes he can win—with good reason.

Lawrence has been shunned by the Shellingfields, despite victory at the Value System. For him, life and death are separated by a single sheet of paper.

Sarah-Kelly still awaits her fate in the Basement of Euston depot. For her, life is death, it’s just a matter of time.

The great enemies manoeuvre for battle. Each has a secret weapon, but which will land the killing blow?