Sim Moy is a London-born man with a well-travelled and diverse background. He has been writing for more than a decade. A Case of Gravity is Moy’s fourth book. It is a follow-up to his two previous books, Waters’ Edge and Sky High. Their genre is not specific, although they are often described as adventure thrillers laced with a little situation humour. A Case of Gravity is set in present-day Cornwall in the south of England. It generally concerns the events of a hapless but affable Foreign Office employee Christian Simpkins. The Christian Simpkins series has proved to be an enduring and popular endeavour for Moy’s particular take on modern day life.Sim Moy himself describes this literary contribution as a conceptual novel, woven around a novel concept.
To Christian Simpkins, time was of the essence. His old friend, a rather eccentric rotund scientist had been abducted from his own facility in Cornwall, England.Simpkins was on the trail, piecing together tiny snippets of information to steer him onward into the unknown. Others also desperately wanted this scientist, they wanted his knowledge and they wanted a particular little prototype that could seemingly defy gravity.Slowly, too slowly, Simpkins begins to unravel the workings of those that took his friend and their murderous intentions. Highly skilled in their deadly arts, they turned their attention to this worrying thorn in their side. Simpkins’ survival plan was based on luck, circumstance and very little else except his strangely tuned mind, a strategy somewhat lost to the seasoned professionals on their deadly errand.A fast-paced windmill of twists of thought and cryptic subterfuge.A tale of intrigue, death, love and unerring friendship set in today’s world of unforgiving hard truths.
Shrinking back into the thick Central America Jungle in an effort to obscure himself from the incoming gunfire, Christian Simpkins desperately tried to recall the details of his job description at the Foreign Office.
His errand to Belize was to simply liaise with a man acting as a mediator in discussions with neighbouring Guatemala, as there was a bit of a to-do regarding some recent border skirmishes. The events that soon unfolded, encompassed huge wealth to grinding poverty and orderly civility to outright anarchy. Traffickers, smugglers and bandits vied with overly enthusiastic security services. Jungle greens were the dress of the day, and among this chaos stood one nervous young man in a white linen suit, looking up to the sky above. A grand design was up there, and therein lay hope.
A conceptual novel woven around a novel concept. A sequel to Simpkins previous’ adventures in the Sahara.
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