‘Oh, I won’t be Father,’ he says, turning back to the window. She looks at him, hating him, detesting every ounce of his creation and existence. Her eyes now more hooded and the bags deeper and darker. Mother sips from the long-stemmed glass of champagne. Instead they have murdered, poisoned, drowned and gone back to covert methods of secret messages written with invisible ink on edible paper while riots raged in nearly every city as the masses rose up in emulation of the heroes that held guns to the heads of their oppressors. She certainly brought about world peace as not one single nation has fired a shot at another in the guise of war. Maggie Sanderson used a time machine to simultaneously appear in dozens of government war rooms at the same second with a truly American show of absolute power designed to bring total shock and awe. Satellites hacked and spies turning up dead every week. A new global cold war with walls going up on hard borders equipped with heavy weapons. The assault on Cavendish Manor was only a year ago, but already the world is a vastly different place. The man at her side stays silent, secretly agreeing with her and wishing she would just go. The windows are mirrored so anyone glancing at the GCHQ building will not see them staring out across the River Thames to the twelve- foot-high holographic 3D image of Tango Two giving her finger to the heavens above. With nothing left to lose but life itself, our heroes must stop Mother - or die trying. What’s more, the timelines have been twisted. London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation. But what they find just doesn’t make sense. While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas… The end of the world has been avoided - for now. Published tomorrow by 47North, here’s the synopsis:

Haywood‘s Extinct, the third novel in the author’s Extracted series.

Extracted by R.R. Haywood