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The Rotten State

by A. J. Stewart

Series: John Flynn (4)

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A funeral. A community in grief. A secret ready to explode. When John Flynn and Aleksy Gorski visit Denmark, the last place they expect to be is at a funeral. But it's not the sadness or the wake that shocks them. It's the expectation that worse is yet to come. They discover a community living in what appears to be a utopia, but the facade is cracking. Years of secrets are threatening to explode their happiness. But does the greatest threat come from the outside? A developer wants the land where the community lives and a local politician wants to get it for him. It's all about the future and progress. And you can't stop progress. Except maybe John Flynn can. When the wife of old friend asks Flynn for help, he does the polite thing and agrees to ask some questions. But when questions lead from a confrontation with local hoods right up to the halls of power, Flynn must risk tearing everything down in order to save any of it.… (more)
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A funeral. A community in grief. A secret ready to explode. When John Flynn and Aleksy Gorski visit Denmark, the last place they expect to be is at a funeral. But it's not the sadness or the wake that shocks them. It's the expectation that worse is yet to come. They discover a community living in what appears to be a utopia, but the facade is cracking. Years of secrets are threatening to explode their happiness. But does the greatest threat come from the outside? A developer wants the land where the community lives and a local politician wants to get it for him. It's all about the future and progress. And you can't stop progress. Except maybe John Flynn can. When the wife of old friend asks Flynn for help, he does the polite thing and agrees to ask some questions. But when questions lead from a confrontation with local hoods right up to the halls of power, Flynn must risk tearing everything down in order to save any of it.

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