He has only a cat for company as he sits in his confinement, hearing the whispers of the radio equipment. He spends many years in isolation, living off tinned food and making do when the toilets stop working. The son of an IT worker, Jimmy is caught up in one of the famous uprisings and is secluded into safety by his father. The third and final part takes the reader back to the origins of one of the characters from WOOL, Jimmy, aka Solo. Sometimes it’s the most unlikely of characters. And it’s not always the loud, brash characters that can whisper in ears and begin to sew the seeds of discontent. The second part of the novel introduces us to Mission Jones, a young porter in one of the silos and begins to give an insight into just what causes the uprisings that seem to crop up each generation or two. It’s all too late when Donald realises what he was been working on. Donald designs a silo comprising of almost 150 levels thinking it to merely be a occupational health and safety feature to get the entire facility passed off on. Nanotechnology is fast becoming a reality and humanity could be wiped out by an enemy they can’t even see.
An architect before he went into politics, the Senator wants him to design something special – a facility that could house thousands of people in the event of an incident. He owes much of his election to a powerful Senator and when the Senator calls him in for a meeting, Donald is surprised to be asked to be part of a top secret project. SHIFT is the sequel to the self-publishing success that was WOOL but it isn’t about what happened after – this takes us back to the origins of the silos and how they came to be…and why.ĭonald is a young Congressman in a time less than 50 years away from now. Copy courtesy the publisher via NetGalley
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