Out of Europe

'Out of Europe', a short novel on what will come from, come to, and come out of Europe.

There are many hands seeking to guide the destiny of the European Union. Probably the least known and the most powerful is the secretive and profoundly manipulative Policy Evaluation Unit (PEU).
Headed by the ambitious and ruthless Frenchman Valery Montaigne, and staffed by some of Europe’s finest brains, the function of the PEU is to build the route map by which the European Union will be made to reach its long sought after utopia of peace and boundless prosperity.
OUT OF EUROPE follows the blundering machinations and twisted logic of the PEU as it drags Europe, step by step, back into a dystopia of destruction and annihilation.
Initially seeking to reconcile Europe’s age-old nationalisms to a single state, the PEU is compelled to manipulate the rooted racism of its peoples to forge a common identity. Having triumphed over the forces of dissolution, the PEU realises its victory stands to be lost on the rising grey tide of a terminally ageing population. In desperation it finally stumbles into war as the only way of reinvigorating a geriatric and failing Europe.
OUT OF EUROPE is a darkly cynical look at the technocratic project that is the European Union. It takes Europe’s quest for peace and prosperity and shows how it can easily be inverted and perverted to place Europe back in the nightmare it is still seeking to flee from: fascism and war.