Danny Bunyan
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Danny Bunyan
The Lozenge that changed the world
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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.
Chow Island: The Lozenge That Changed the World
Journalist Zara Voss has chased corruption across three continents. Nothing prepared her for an invitation with no return address, and a destination that shouldn’t exist.
Welcome to Chow Island: a volcanic paradise where the world’s worst people come to disappear, twenty-four hours at a time. The drinks never run dry. The shopping has no price tag. And everywhere Zara turns, the same orange glow pulses, from the volcano, the candy, the eyes of everyone who’s stopped asking questions.
She has until midnight to watch, to learn, and to earn her reward. What she doesn’t know is that by the time the clock runs out, she’ll be the one deciding who deserves to survive.
Savage, satirical, and impossible to put down, paradise has never had such sharp teeth.
About the Series
Chow Island is Danny Bunyan’s genre-bending series of dark satire, following the Syndicate’s audacious plan to deliver justice on an industrial scale, one orange lozenge at a time. Start with Chow Island: The Syndicate or dive straight into the chaos here.
About the Author
Danny Bunyan writes from Prague, where he’s lived for nearly three decades, drawing on thirty years of friendship, misadventure, and dark humour shared with his brother and friends back home in Manchester. Chow Island is his debut series.
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 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.