The Path Finder Series 1 - Paths Not Yet Taken

Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, Paths Not Yet Taken is a sharp, funny political satire about power, pretence, and the curious ways truth can trip us all up. Simon Pope is an ordinary man with an extraordinary online alter ego. By day, he shifts boxes in a warehouse. By night, he becomes Esteban Canafanta – a dark-web crusader, self-styled truth-teller, and imagined scourge of politicians everywhere. His furious posts earn him a loyal following of digital warriors… and the attention of the intelligence community. When a man he despises, the UK's prime minister, appears in Simon's garage, exhausted, on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and desperate to leave his job, Simon's world is turned upside down. What follows is a surreal weekend of beer, golf, dog walks, and a crash course in what it really means to be human. As the government scrambles to explain the PM's disappearance, a desperate search begins, and Simon's own online life comes back to bite him. With the country on edge and the spin machine in overdrive, there's only one thing every bureaucrat can agree on: someone must take the fall. Fast-paced, warm-hearted, and wickedly funny, Paths Not Yet Taken lifts the curtain on politics, power, and the fragile egos steering the ship. It is a smart, irreverent comedy for anyone who's ever wanted to tell their leaders where to go. The book is the first novel in The Path Finder Series, continued in Good for the Soul and Where the Winds Blow - a trilogy of sharp, funny satires about power, purpose, and the absurdity of modern life.