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    The Testimony
    The Testimony
    The Testimony
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Testimony

    Written by James Smythe

    Narrated by Peter Noble, Ben Onwukwe, Helen Keeley and

    3.5/5

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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 didn’t.

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 3, 2017
    ISBN9780008223205
    Author

    James Smythe

    James Smythe has written scripts for a number of video games, and teaches creative writing in London. His previous novel was The Explorer.

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    • 4/5
      To begin with, The Testimony is ... thorough, shall we say. The "talking heads" style narrative feels slow to get going, but the fault for this should be laid at the feet of the blurb: it takes 25% of the book to cover the receipt of the message.

      However, once it gets going, it gets going. It's a proper One-More-Chapter read. I wasn't a great fan of the surface direction the terrorism story line it took - just feels a bit "meh" - but I enjoyed it very much and will certainly be looking out more of the authors work.

      One other thing, less a criticism, more an observation: this is a story which concerns itself with the individual human accounts of the events it covers, from a highup in the American Government to a professional gamer in China, and yet, 2/3s of them are male.
    • 4/5
      This around-the-world apocalyptic thriller gives us a truly global perspective [with 26 point-of-view narrators] of what might happen if God – or something – spoke to us, if a voice came out of a clear blue sky and said, in English, ‘My Children… Do Not Be Afraid’. Is it aliens? Terrorists? Is it God, and if so, which God? Far from uniting humanity, the announcement is fatally divisive and there is an upsurge in militant unrest while the world collapses, traditional structures vanish and new ones take their place. Smythe brings us characters as diverse as a British MP – who eventually finds love with a soldier – and the White House Chief of Staff, an Indian doctor and a South African drug dealer, an American research scientist and an Italian nun. Despite the multitude of voices, the story is smooth, fast-paced and exciting, plus it deals with the unthinkable in a fairly realistic manner.