More books

In keeping with the literary theme of this afternoon's post about Hesperus Press, I feel driven to make another book recommendation. Well, not quite a recommendation, since I have only just heard about the book myself, at Gates of Vienna. But certainly this is a book that I myself feel quite interested in buying, if I can get round to it.

It's called Invasion and it's written by an author named DC Alden, who I must confess to having not heard of before. The review by Bryan Lowe at Gates of Vienna gives something of a flavour of the plot:

From the very first page, Invasion leaps forward into the twenty-second century, where the walled city of London basks in a Mediterranean climate. Britain is no more, the author tells us, and this depiction of England slaving under the yoke of Islamic rule is unnerving. The indigenous population are forced to live in slums outside the city while occupying only menial positions in a bustling London that boasts marbled mosques and landscaped memorial gardens built to commemorate the end of western civilisation. The prologue focuses on two men who are on a mission, one that will have a devastating effect on the Islamic rulers of this Arabian outpost.

It’s at this point that the novel jumps back to present day, albeit a few years into the future. Harry Beecham, the British Prime Minister, struggles with a country whose economy is failing and whose future is now aligned with Europe rather than the US. America is politically isolated, banished from the Middle East after a new Islamic power rises to unite Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey and the North African states.

Next on its agenda of conquest is Europe, already floundering in a sea of rampant immigration. It is from these immigrants that the shock troops of Arabia hide, waiting to receive the ‘go’ order.

I am amazed that any publisher has agreed to publish this book, with what sounds like an explicitly anti-Islamic message. But it does make a nice change from leftist use of the arts to promote their views, and if this book were to sell well, it would certainly piss off a few people. It's got overwhelmingly positive reviews on Amazon, too.

I'll try and stop giving authors and publishers free advertising now, I promise.