Today is our stop on the blog tour for Manhattan Down by Michael Cordy.
It is the afternoon before the remembrance of the disaster that was 9/11, Climate change has caused Manhattan to be under an oppressive heat dome. All the world leaders are gathered in the United Nations Assembly building to discuss what to do. Samantha Rossi, top cyber security officer, is preparing to leave her office at Goldman Sachs to go home to her daughter Zoe. Nick Lockwood, an NYPD officer on gardening leave is lying in hospital, wounded.
At 5.25 pm precisely, all the people on the island fall asleep where they are – walking, driving, cycling or going about their daily tasks. Samantha, Nick, Zoe and veteran Hank Kowalski are the only ones awake, or so they believe. Dogs, cats and rats become feral. The City that Never Sleeps has become Somnopolis – the City of Sleepers.
Samantha is desperate to find Zoe. Nick wants to find who or what has done this to his city. He is the sole police officer awake. When he comes across a body with a green baseball cap similar to his own, with a backpack, and catching sight of another wearing the same attire, he assumes the identity of the body to investigate. He discovers that he has become part of a group of activists called the Waking Eye who are holding the city to ransom over climate change. The members of this group will wake the inhabitants at dawn, provided that their demands are met by every world power. In her search for Zoe, Samantha is captured and coerced into working for them using her cyber skills. Will she and Nick , working together, succeed in waking Manhattan and finding Zoe? Is the Waking Eye as honest in their demands as they say? Who decides the fate of Manhattan and of the world?
A bombshell of a novel, not beyond the realm of present day possibility. I highly recommend Manhattan Down - there is never a lull in the tension. Excellent, Michael Cordy!
5 stars
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