About Midnight Empire
Las Vegas, Nevada. Young Australian computer programmer Daniel Carter has arrived at the heart of the American war machine – the drone program at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs.
Naive, untested, but keen to make a difference, he is plunged headlong into America's surreal battle against its enemies in the Middle East – a battle fought at a distance of 7,000 miles from a city where nothing is real.
As geographic and political boundaries blur, Daniel enters into an unlikely romance with a professional poker player, Ania. But when the hunt for an Al Qaeda master-mind ramps up in the skies over Peshawar, and American pilots begin to die in the suburbs of Las Vegas, events take a devastating turn.
A novel of a new kind of war, of love and connection in the modern age, Midnight Empire is a powerful thriller that takes us to the troubling epicentre of a foreshortening world. It is a taut and at times terrifying vision of a world without frontiers, a novel about dangerous new realities and how they threaten to transform us.
Naive, untested, but keen to make a difference, he is plunged headlong into America's surreal battle against its enemies in the Middle East – a battle fought at a distance of 7,000 miles from a city where nothing is real.
As geographic and political boundaries blur, Daniel enters into an unlikely romance with a professional poker player, Ania. But when the hunt for an Al Qaeda master-mind ramps up in the skies over Peshawar, and American pilots begin to die in the suburbs of Las Vegas, events take a devastating turn.
A novel of a new kind of war, of love and connection in the modern age, Midnight Empire is a powerful thriller that takes us to the troubling epicentre of a foreshortening world. It is a taut and at times terrifying vision of a world without frontiers, a novel about dangerous new realities and how they threaten to transform us.
About Andrew
Andrew Croome is a writer living in Canberra. Raised in Hobart and Albury-Wodonga, he has worked as a computer programmer, writing teacher and copywriter. His first work of fiction was Document Z, a Cold War historical novel. It won the 2008 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award and the UTS Award for New Writing at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His most recent novel is Midnight Empire. In 2010 Andrew was named a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year. His articles and reviews have appeared in various publications, including The Age and The Australian. Document Z
'An engrossing account of the personal cost of Cold War tensions' – Australian Literary Review
'Croome’s prose bristles with wry intelligence in a first novel of rare poise’ – Adelaide Advertiser
'Impossible to put down, this is suspenseful writing at its best' – South Coast Register
Winner 2008 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award
Winner UTS Award for New Writing - NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Shortlisted Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book
Shortlisted Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction
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