Those who follow HistoryInBites will know the central question: what if the catastrophes of history were not mistakes at all? What if the stories we were told about how the world came to be this way are, at best, incomplete — and at worst, a deliberate fabrication?
HistoryInBites sticks to what can be evidenced. But I’ve always wondered what it would be like to follow that same instinct — that the official story is never the whole story — to a place where the evidence can’t reach. So I wrote a novel.
The result is The Ghost of Downing Street, a near-future thriller. Garrick Townsend is posted as a protection officer at Number 10. Following a personal tragedy, he wants nothing more than a quiet life. Instead he is drawn into a dark mystery stranger than he could have imagined. The ghost of the title is a metaphor, but not just a metaphor. He discovers history is not fixed - but if you could re-route history would you? Should you? What if it got personal?
The Ghost of Downing Street is available now on Amazon.