The end of the world is nigh; or so those who listen to the Pembrokeshire grapevine would have you believe. The supermarkets are experiencing panic buying the like of which hasn't been seen since the big snow of 1982; looting is rife; and thanks to a wild party with his new Asian friends Big Paul has lost an entire day.
At the crack of dawn Mike Priestland had a sneaking suspicion that it was going to be a bad day when the roof of his house was ripped off by an early morning meteor/rogue comet/asteroid affair; a harbinger of doom spawned by the distant collision way out in the Kuiper Belt between a moon and a different meteor/rogue comet/asteroid affair.
The military are called in, which is always good for a laugh, led by Major Hoolihan whose lips are anything but hot. Together with a team of civilian experts headed up by an Einstein/Beethoven lookalike, their quest is a desperate attempt to come up with a solution to the meteor/rogue comet/asteroid activity before they all have to leave the party to shuffle off their various coils and meet their makers.
But, as the advance meteor showers starts to fizzle out, the hugely anticipated main strike never arrives; something else does; something quite possibly not of this Earth.
Alien invaders? Government scheming? A plot to wipe Monkton off the face of the planet? Who could know; but the retired Chief Gallant, admirably aided by a farmer, a home delivery driver and Big Paul, the private security man home on leave from Afghanistan, or possibly Iraq, are determined to get to the bottom of the enigma before things in general get any nastier.
Available February 2015
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At the crack of dawn Mike Priestland had a sneaking suspicion that it was going to be a bad day when the roof of his house was ripped off by an early morning meteor/rogue comet/asteroid affair; a harbinger of doom spawned by the distant collision way out in the Kuiper Belt between a moon and a different meteor/rogue comet/asteroid affair.
The military are called in, which is always good for a laugh, led by Major Hoolihan whose lips are anything but hot. Together with a team of civilian experts headed up by an Einstein/Beethoven lookalike, their quest is a desperate attempt to come up with a solution to the meteor/rogue comet/asteroid activity before they all have to leave the party to shuffle off their various coils and meet their makers.
But, as the advance meteor showers starts to fizzle out, the hugely anticipated main strike never arrives; something else does; something quite possibly not of this Earth.
Alien invaders? Government scheming? A plot to wipe Monkton off the face of the planet? Who could know; but the retired Chief Gallant, admirably aided by a farmer, a home delivery driver and Big Paul, the private security man home on leave from Afghanistan, or possibly Iraq, are determined to get to the bottom of the enigma before things in general get any nastier.
Available February 2015
_Buy The Paperback