Shades of Green – a novel by Andy Lake

The ‘Extinction Rebellion’ movement is fascinating. And in many ways it matches the events in Shades of Green.

A shaky economy, a government that has lost its way, an establishment that has lost confidence in itself as things fall apart. And determined voices come forward to set new agendas.

And, of course, the issues are of vital importance. But where will the well-intentioned and mostly good-natured coercive tactics of the protesters lead?

Shades of Green offers some insights into how things might turnout.

The Extinction Rebellion movement seems to be following the Green Earth Movement playbook. Number 3 of their demands is the setting up of Citizens’ Assembly to drive government policy.

This concept is central to the action in Shades of Green, becoming a focus for politics while Parliament slides into irrelevance.

Here are some highlights from reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com:

“Shades of Green is a truly outstanding book and has the potential to one-day rank among dystopian classics like Orwell’s 1984”

“Shades of Green is a fast paced political thriller centred around the accession to power of environmental political parties and movements…

… I look foward to the day when this gripping read is adapted into a gripping movie.”

“In this fascinating book we follow the growth of a strengthening political philosophy, the appearance of its disciples, the slow subversion of the middle-ground, and the eventually near surrender of control. There are shades of 1984 and shades of Nazism, of fascism, of Talibanism, of state controlled communism, of any self-righteous doctrine that strives to subvert and then dictate.”

“This is England where this kind of thing doesn’t happen…”

“Shades of Green, by Andy Lake, is powerful, unsettling, chilling and enlightening. It is a compelling, page-turning read that kept me up late many evenings because I absolutely had to know what happened next.”

There’s a couple of good reviews from Amazon added to the site now – Read here

Shades of Green has now been published!

The paperback version is available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

If you buy it, I recommend downloading the Green Spectrum (link in menu above) as a graphic character list.

Enjoy!

What would happen if a government committed to green policies and animal rights principles were elected, and had the will and determination to carry them through?  Like a Green Taliban, only better organised and with the resources of a modern state at their disposal.

In Shades of Green, that’s just what happens.

Against a background of continued economic flat-lining, a series of environmental crises propel Don Mason’s Green Earth Movement into government.  Their ‘Green Revolution’ puts tens of thousands of Green Volunteers onto the streets, climate change projects launched to transform the economy, eco-criminals hauled off to eco-camps for re-education and every aspect of society examined for its environmental virtue.

As the initial wave of euphoria subsides, Mason’s government moves towards ever harsher measures to reduce the impact of humanity on the natural world.  Caught in the middle of this are the ‘Kitson Circle’, led by the ambitious Liberal-Green politician Peter Kitson. As a compromise between prosperity and environmental virtue becomes ever more elusive, Kitson and his family find themselves at the mercy of forces they cannot control.

With Britain’s first ‘Green King’ and a conservative US President playing pivotal roles, Shades of Green has a cast of memorable characters caught up in the events at the centre of this challenging and politically incorrect novel.