About Jake Avila
Jake Avila has a background in freelance journalism writing on politics, culture, technology, and sport. In 2019, he won the Adventure Writer's Competition Clive Cussler Grandmaster Award for Cave Diver, which went on to win the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize (2020) and a publishing deal with Bonnier Books (UK) and Echo Publishing (AUS). He is currently working on The Anthropocene Series, a speculative saga on the fate of humanity, which begins with Book 1, The Fall, told in three parts.
2040: The world is burning, and hope is almost lost…
The super-rich insulate themselves on sub-Antarctic islands and lobby for nation-state recognition while the eco terrorist known as Vidar fuels the flames of social breakdown. The fate of civilization now lies with a green independent president and a revolutionary AI, but then a lethal virus triggers a catastrophic nuclear war.
This is how it REALLY ends…
The AnTHRopocene Series
For 3,000 centuries the blue planet has blessed us with her riches. When our civilizations rose and fell, her bounteous resources were there to seed others. But now we have outgrown her, so imposed upon her complex systems that we have earned our own unit of geological time: the Anthropocene, an era which appears destined to be short-lived. And while Homo sapiens is a fiendishly intelligent species, capable of creative genius as well as mindless destruction, can we realise our collective potential to save ourselves? The Anthropocene Series grapples with this question in a speculative cross-genre vision of mind-blowing scale. From feuding space billionaires to a courageous teenager speaking truth to power, from a jaded FBI agent trying to regain faith in justice to a conviction politician navigating the shoals of compromise, these and other intersecting stories propel you into the near and distant future. Book 1, The Fall, told in 3 parts, is set against the looming post-truth plunge into climate disaster. Book 2, From Ashes, the long and bitter struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic nightmare, while Book 3, Beyond, suggests that despite, or perhaps because of our selfish genes, humanity may yet endure among the stars. This is a tale for our time.
– Dirk Cussler, NY Times
Acclaimed explorer Rob Nash is lost, grieving his wife's death and blaming himself. Frank Douglas offers him a cave diving expedition in Papua, but things take a dark turn when a Japanese submarine and treasure hunters enter the picture. Nash must battle his demons and survive the perils of the deep.