John P Brookes – författare

Over The TopIn 1916, eighteen-year-old Ellis disappears from the Western Front.Fifty years later, he wakes in a secure research facility, physically unchanged and with no understanding of how he survived, where the intervening years have gone, or why he has not aged.For those studying him, Ellis presents an impossible question. For Ellis, the greater challenge is learning to live in a world that has moved on without him.Britain in the late 1960s is almost unrecognisable from the country he left behind. Music is louder, clothes are brighter, attitudes are changing and a new generation is questioning almost everything their parents accepted. As rock music, youth culture and the counterculture gather momentum around him, Ellis finds himself caught between the values of the world that made him and the extraordinary possibilities of the one in which he has awakened.But the organisation responsible for his recovery is interested in more than simply helping him adjust. Ellis has survived something nobody can explain, and attempts to understand what happened in that trench begin to draw him into a series of increasingly ambitious experiments.What begins as investigation becomes something far more dangerous.As the 1960s give way to a new decade, science, music, memory and identity collide — until, in 1970, everything converges at Afton Down.Over The Top is a historical science-fiction novel spanning the trenches of the First World War and the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s. Blending mystery, speculative science, music and social change, it follows a young soldier given an impossible second life in a future he was never meant to see.A prequel to Ticket to the Void and the second novel in the Continuum Trilogy.