Danny Bunyan
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Danny Bunyan
The Syndicate
by Danny Bunyan
On the edge of the known world, a delirious utopia begins with a mistake, a suitcase, and a taste no one understands. Chow Island, the Syndicate, a prequel, reveals how a paradise of pleasure became an engine of transformation. In this prequel, power, hunger, and ambition transform into something far more dangerous.
Chow Island was no mere playground, but an engine of moral transmutation. Beneath its dazzling entertainments and impossible luxuries, the island captured human appetite, refined it, and turned calories into data, converting desire into something measurable, manageable, and dangerously profitable. At the heart of it all was the discovery of a bright orange gel, a substance whose strange properties would lead to the creation of the bright orange pork lozenge, a confection whispered to have saved the world.
Few who tasted its sweetness understood what it was made from, or what had been stripped away to create it. As the island’s secrets deepen, Chow Island reveals how temptation, invention, and the darkness people leave behind when they choose pleasure over truth can build a paradise.
““The island promised what no continent could: four-star Michelin dining, boutiques to shame Rodeo Drive, and a pleasure park so vast and dazzling it eclipsed every wonder ever made by human hands.””
Dathe Lambert
“A dazzling dark fantasy of appetite, power, and beautiful ruin.”
David Stennet
“Where paradise shines brightest, the shadows run deepest. Lush, sinister, and impossible to forget.”
Joel Fraboni
Dedicated to documenting every "Intake," "Audit," and "Extraction" with the clinical precision of a man who knows exactly what's in the meat.
Danny Bunyan is the Syndicate's resident creative muse, currently shacked up at the dizzying peak of a 600m glass tower in Prague. From this pressurized sanctuary, he translates his "true-life adventures" into the high-torque pages of the Chow Island series. A survivor of the Manchester streets, just like the rest of the Syndicate brotherhood, Danny has traded the smell of generic whiskey and soggy pastry for the "Industrial Divinity" of the Atlantic's most exclusive pantry. He is dedicated to documenting every "Intake," "Audit," and "Extraction" with the clinical precision of a man who knows exactly what's in the meat. When he isn't polishing his prose (or his Golden Spoon), he's watching the horizon for that tell-tale orange glow.
The Lozenge that changed the world
Welcome to the island. Population: the worst people alive. Stay: twenty-four hours. Checkout: optional.
When journalist Zara Voss receives a golden invitation to a secret resort, she expects luxury. She gets that paradise, and also a volcano that pulses like a heartbeat, a security force of genetically engineered killer cats, and a candy that turns the world’s elite into something far stranger than dessert.
Guided by Rachel, a Bolton-born fixer with a body count and a heart of gold, Zara is given a single mantra to live by: Watch. Learn. Reward. But the closer midnight creeps, the clearer it becomes that her reward isn’t a gift. It’s a decision. And the Syndicate is waiting to see what she chooses.
Funny, grotesque, and unflinching, this is the story of how the world’s most dangerous people built their own paradise and discovered too late that paradise has teeth.
The Pork Lozenge Movement
THE SYNDICATE’S GRIP HAS TIGHTENED.
Now that the Bright Pork Lozenge is distributed across the planet, humanity faces a terrifying new era of corporate supremacy and manufactured craving. What happens when everyone is a member? What happens when a global operation achieves total dominance, only for reality itself to start fracturing at the seams?
Inside the fracturing command center of Sky HQ, the inner circle scrambles to control an ancient, non-sentient god throwing a tectonic tantrum. The island’s grip is slipping on a stubborn dead zone, and the elite are about to weaponize thousands of tonnes of compressed luxury waste to force a fake surrender frequency into a subterranean bedrock core.