Noise by Darin Bradley

This is one of the most timely and brilliantly conceived novels that I've read in a long time.

Timely because it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to know that there are big changes coming. Whether our society is elastic enough or will break under the pressure is an open question.

Brilliant from a writers perspective because the author uses his words like an artist uses a dry brush to get just the right color.

Given the shape of the world today, when I close my eyes, Noise is like the nightmares that I see.

Everyone wants more. Civility is a quaint, old fashioned idea. People have a dangerous, feral quality about them.

Yes- I can see this happening. I can see the thrill killers and the cowardly sadist; liberated as society collapses.

Maybe it is time. Maybe it is their time. Maybe it has already started.

Some people like their fiction smooth and polished. Slick and stylish. That's not Noise. Noise flows like the crunch of broken glass under your boots or the sting of smoke in your eyes. It takes you into a violent a dark landscape that is all the more terrifying because it evolves from home to hell so quickly.

I like fiction that has the ring of truth about it. Noise has that. It makes the hairs on your arms stand up because deep down inside: today, tomorrow, next year or next week- you know that it could happen. We will laugh nervously, shake our heads and carry on but in our nightmares we will still hear the Noise.