Danny Bunyan
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Danny Bunyan
The Pork Lozenge Movement
by Danny Bunyan
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.
On Chow Island, sweetness is never innocent.
What begins as a glittering orange sensation soon ripples out across the world, turning markets, governments, and ordinary lives into collateral damage for something far bigger than a confection. Behind the glow, the swagger, and the darkly comic spectacle lies a ruthless operation with global reach, where loyalty is currency, appetite is power, and every bite comes with a price.
This is a thriller with teeth: part satirical fever dream, part crime saga, part deliciously twisted warning label. If you like your fiction sharp, cinematic, and a little bit unhinged, Chow Island serves it hot.
“"An absolute masterclass in industrial absurdity. It’s Succession meets a late-night chip shop run by mad scientists. I couldn't look away." ”
Alistair Vance, The BookBlurb Chronicle
“"Terrifying, claustrophobic, and brilliantly funny. Bunyan turns a subterranean sugar pit into the most high-stakes thriller setting of the year." ”
Siobhan McCarthy, Dystopia Today
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 Syndicate
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.
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.