The Testimony

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A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction.
What would you do if the world was brought to a standstill If you heard deafening static followed by the words, My children. Do not be afraid

Would you turn to God Subscribe to the conspiracy theories Or put your faith in science and a rational explanation

The lives of all twenty-six people in this account are affected by the message. Most because they heard it. Some because they didnt.

The Testimony a gripping story of the world brought to its knees and of its people, confused and afraid.

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[An] utterly gripping and highly original debut novela tour de force of virtuoso writing that explodes off the page DAILY MAIL

As if Philip K Dick and David Mitchell had collaborated on an episode of The West Wing unsettling, gripping and hugely thought-provoking FHM

A fiercely-imagined dystopia of the near future. Intelligent, visionary and compulsively readable ALEX PRESTON, author of The Revelations

A literary post-apocalyptic novel built around a clever conceit GUARDIAN

Author Bio

James Smythe is the winner of the Wales Fiction Book of the Year 2013, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2014. He is the author of The Testimony, The Machine and No Harm Can Come To A Good Man, as well as The Anomaly Quartet, which currently includes the novels The Explorer and The Echo. James lives in London and teaches creative writing. He can be found on Twitter @jpsmythe