The Night of Blind Ambition by Malcolm J. Wardlaw-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 18, 2019

No one returns from the Nameless Gone—or do they?

It is 2106. The playtime of the Fatted Masses collapsed long ago. Nations, airliners, governments, traffic jams, bank notes, banks, bankers and tourists are all history. The Public Era is no more.

Cost-Centre Lieutenant Lawrence Aldingford has been condemned for life to the Value System, a slave-labour camp of grotesque barbarity. He is innocent as charged, that is true, but as a glory officer he soaked his soul in the blood of the surplus. Repressed guilt is a time-bomb in his chest, he just doesn’t know it yet. His total fixation is to escape.

But no escape has ever succeeded. The Value System lies in a vast marsh infested with vicious savages. If he is to be free again, he will have to achieve the impossible—or else die trying.

The outside world is changing fast. Actions that used to be praised as best-practice safety theory are now denounced as criminal. Will Lawrence escape back to life, only to be charged with glory crimes?

Take a day in the life of Ivan Denisovich with a dash of soylent green. That is the nightmare world of the Value System.

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REVIEW:THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION is the second instalment in Malcolm J. Wardlaw’s SOVEREIGNS OF THE COLLAPSE dark, dystopian, post apocalyptic series following in the aftermath of the ‘Glorious Resolution’ of 2038-2040. THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION should not be read as a stand alone as it continues to build upon the events of book one A BLOODY ARROGANT POWER.

WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line content, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers. THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION is not for the faint-hearted-the imagery is dark and disturbing.

Told from third person perspective (Lawrence Aldingford) THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION continues to focus on the aftermath of the Glorious Resolution in which England, and much of the world’s economic and political institutions have collapsed and failed. The year is 2106, andLawrence Aldingford was a Cost-Centre Lieutenant who was tasked with cleaning up the ‘surplus’ at sea, a tasked of which he accepted without question but when Lawrence submitted a complaint against a corrupt senior officer, Lawrence found himself condemned to a slave labor camp where very few ever survived. With his life in the hands of the people in charge, Lawrence will discover the true meaning of evil and atrocity as he is forced to ‘unload and salvage’ from the dead surplus masses.

THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION is a story of brutality and atrocities of ethnic cleansing, genocide, corrupt power and absolute rule. We are witness to the horror and barbarity where humans are treated as vermin and cattle, never to be seen or heard for again. Lawrence Aldingford is an anti-hero, a man who has participated in, and witnessed some of the repulsive cruelty ever forced upon mankind, but a man whose eyes will be opened when he experiences the wickedness, first hand.

Malcolm J. Wardlaw pulls the reader into a dystopian world of what ifs and whys. The possibility of total economic and political collapse is but a few questionable actions away, actions that in real time, are a distinct probability if the oligarchs and powerful elite take total control of the world as we know it.

THE NIGHT OF BLIND AMBITION is a dark, gritty and grim look at a possible future wherein the chasm between the have and have nots is controlled by death and destruction. Focusing on Lawrence Aldingford, the brother of Donald Aldingford (A Bloody Arrogant Power) the reader is up close and personal with the grisly and gruesome results of the ‘Glorious Resolution’.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one A BLOODY ARROGANT POWER.

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Reviewed by Sandy