The Black Road

The post-apocalyptic saga of a populist uprising against a dictator and his brutal cabal who unleash monsters to maintain rule of a post-nuclear England.

From “brilliant” British horror author Simon Bestwick, the complete three novels in his dystopian series, The Black Road (The Guardian). 

Helen Damnation had been left for dead by her archnemesis, buried in a mass grave and expected never to rise again. But Helen escaped, only to be haunted by the ghosts of her murdered family, who taunt her into gathering all her strength to overthrow the terrifying reign of Tereus Winterborn and his brutal militia, The Reapers. With a band of fierce allies, including Gevaudan Shoal, the last survivor of the genetically engineered Grendelwolves and Helen’s most powerful weapon, Helen takes to the Black Road in hope of victory. But at a secret site deep in the Wastelands of decimated England, Commander Winterborn has an ally of his own: the fiercely determined Dr. Mordrake, hard at work on Project Tindalos, an experiment to harness the forces of ancient ritual to create a technology so powerful, there will be no end to Winterborn’s influence. 

But Project Tindalos is not without its own dangers. There are dark forces Winterborn could not have anticipated, or Helen and her rebel faction prepared for—forces that will change the terms of the rebellion, for better or worse.

Praise for The Black Road series:

“Gripping . . . with flawed and compelling characters scraping what they can from the ashes. —Tim Lebbon, New York Times–bestselling author of The Silence

“Grabs you and won’t let go.” —Pat Cadigan, Hugo Award–winning author of Mindplayers