Might be nice to share something you're read recently with a little synopsis, and then others can have a scroll through and see something they like.
I've just finished Last Light by Alex Scarrow.
It's about a series of disasters/terrorist attacks that knock out the oil supply to most of the Western world. The book focus' on one family, the husband in Iraq as an oil contractor trying to get home as secretarian fighting around him lead to dangerous situations. The mum at home in the UK up in Manchester for the day getting stranded and trying to get back to the kids in London and the Kids fending for themselves as law and order breaks down in surburbia.
It's a good read, but there are a few factual errors that jar a little bit, like the Dad joining up with British squaddies in Baji, far north of where the British Army operated in Iraq. Also, as it was written before the withdrawal, it's a little difficult to get your mind back 5 years to the time this is set in. What's good though is the realisation it gives of just how dependant we are on oil, and that if it stopped tomorrow, it'd essentially be the end of civilisation as we know it. Almost enough to make you start horeding canned goods.
