Leslie J Nicholls

The Serpents' Manifesto Leslie J Nicholls

The early 2020s finds Britain staggering stodgily through its post Covid hangover. Though Brexit is supposedly secured, EU trade negotiations are striding forward like a tortoise through treacle. The independent state of Scotland is bankrupt and Ireland hovers on the brink of civil war. A series of bizarre, random murders rocks London sparking social media allegations of state sponsored assassination. The under its most apocalyptic attack since World War Two, but this time, the battlefields are not beaches and trenches but banks and treasuries. Police Superintendent Sean Lakin and MI7 senior analyst Farah Karim are on the trail of the sinister Troll who has made their conflict personal. As the Westminster government desperately clings to its slender grip on power, political tensions in Ireland take a tragic turn with calamitous consequences. Against instinct and instruction, Lakin and Karim are drawn into a fiendish conspiracy that not only costs lives, but cuts right to the core of the country's sovereignty and democracy.