When toxic waste chemicals from a secret government research centre creating DNA-changing drugs for the military start to leak into the environment, the effects on the eco-system have sudden and profound effects for humankind’s supremacy of the planet.

As the government dithers and delays, the crisis becomes greater and more widespread, eventually causing an eco-catastophe that unleashes intrigue, intergovernmental friction and diplomatic incidents across the Earth. Will the planet survive in its current state or will the revolution of the species succeed?

It’s all down to one man in particular: but can he create an antidote in time, as he avoids and fights the government and vested interests? And who is working for whom? The planet might never be the same again…

Simon Holder grabs his idea and creates a well paced thought provoking frightening environmental novel. The plotting is superb, the tension ratchets in a sure rising-tension arc, the obstacles, twists and turns, are impeccable and best of all, it is not a lecture but a scenario in which the reader empathises, buys into, cares about – surely it couldn’t happen or could it? The writing is excellent, the sense of place, characterisation and the resolution masterly.

Bravo, Simon Holder. Another belter of a novel to add to: For The Love of a Life, It’s all in the Script!, and A Cultured Pearl and other stories of Love, Longing, Mystique and Hope…

The Revolution of the Species by Simon Holden is a must read. But I warn you, once you start you won’t be able to put it down.