On this basis, you can breeze through the book and enjoy a fun and entertaining read.

There are some great plays on words, too, among the various tribes whose vocabulary has diverged from the norm and who have adopted all kinds of strange titles and forms of address. James, meanwhile, makes side trips in their cannibalised spaceship to round up external help to continue their mission to evade capture and cure the plague that has brought Earth’s ecosystem to its knees. There’s plenty of action and adventure, again in this volume, as James, Elise and the Elfreth travel and hide among the ruined cities and make their way to Manhattan. We don’t know their motivation at the beginning of the book but it soon becomes clear that they are willing to expend a huge amount of resources in order to capture her. The aim of ChronoCom and its corporate partner Valta is to capture Elise Kim, the biologist that James illegally rescued from the past. The action follows on some months later from the previous volume and we find that ex-ChronMan James Griffin-Mars is still hiding among the Elfreth, a tribe that is now homeless after being decimated by James’ former employers, ChronoCom, in an attack that they assume has left James for dead.

It has another beautifully atmospheric cover depicting the ruins of a future Earth where the cities, New York in particular in this book, are overwhelmed by pollution, rampant vegetation and savage tribes. ‘Time Siege’ is Wesley Chu’s sequel to ‘Time Salvager’, which I reviewed here earlier in the year.

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