Wrecks

Out now from Dead Ink Books on August 6th.

“With measured calm, Hill spins a hypnotic, twisted yawn merging elements of ghost story, psychological thriller, and JG Ballard’s Crash.” – Financial Times

“A sweltering modern ghost story with something nasty under the bonnet; an alarmingly charismatic corruption that crawls between the digital, the mechanical and the biological. Evoking Philip K Dick in its reality-warping paranoia and Kathe Koja in its spiralling, self-destructive obsessions, Wrecks is Matt Hill at his strongest and strangest. A tremendous, feverish joyride of a novel, it will leave you with scars you’ll be proud of.” – Malcolm Devlin

“Wrecks is a simmering literary noir thriller I couldn’t bring myself to put down. It’s provocative, it’s daring and it’s utterly mesmerising. It will leave you startled all the way to the finish line.” – Lucy Rose

“Inventive and charged with guilt, Wrecks drifts through emotional ruin on the way to hard-won forgiveness as human connection flickers in the heat-haze.” – Will Carver

“Wrecks is a thrilling ride, a story that centres male friendship – but at what cost? – and picks apart the idea of responsibility – at all levels … Those who like to take risks with their science fiction will find Wrecks reverberating in their memory – still spinning questions – long after reading.” – Nina Allan

When celebrated rally driver Teddy Moon suffers a career-ending crash in the foothills of Eryri, Wales, Lescure senior technician Jim Sorrel shoulders the blame.

Cleared of criminal negligence but dismissed by his bosses, Sorrel goes to ground in London during a lethal heatwave. Here, Sorrel’s guilt is only deepened by the disappearance of his young apprentice, Marcus – and by voices from the past haunting him through his phone.

Then a lifeline: Teddy emerges from his coma and asks to see Sorrel in person. Because, Sorrel learns, Teddy has been dreaming of him. And now Teddy has an opportunity to discuss.

At Teddy’s behest, Sorrel takes a job couriering worldboxes – seamless, brushed-steel vessels – for well-paying, anonymous clients. It feels like another chance. A way for Sorrel to remake himself.

But the worldboxes also seem to carry the threat of something incomprehensible, and soon even Sorrel’s new beginnings falter as retribution draws near.

Wrecks is a noirish near-future thriller about obsession, connection and penance, where human and machine bleed into one, for fans of J. G. Ballard and Joel Lane.

Order Wrecks from Dead Ink or your local bookshop.