A review by nigellicus
Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson

adventurous dark mysterious tense

5.0

Having finished Europe In Winter I dived in to Europe At Dawn without pause. Rudi has stopped being exasperated, now he's angry. Angry Rudi doesn't get even want revenge. Angry Rudi is trying to Sort It Out. But first, a Scottish diplomatic aide has her life derailed by a folk group and a martyr's head, and a young refugee on a crowded Mediterrannean island fishes something out of the sea that will change his life. Long boats set sail down the canals of England, Heathrow airport gets stranded in another dimension, almost sparking a war and causing numerous logistical headaches, and two guards on a deserted railway line see wolves in the trees, even though a disease wiped out all the wolves years ago. The final volume of the series delivers on expectations. Quotidian lives slipping into strangeness and falling apart. Unconnected events and stories sit enigmatially side by side until the end draws them all together to make a sort of sense of them all. And Rudi just tries to do his best to make sure it doesn't all go horribly wrong. Wronger. An excellent ending to an excellent series.