Alex Knightly

Alex Knightly sets Sudden Darkness in Britain after an electromagnetic catastrophe disables power, water systems, and vehicles. The novel opens the Fighting to Survive sequence and follows several residents of a London block of flats whose separate pressures converge as the capital loses order. Annie is far from home, Clive has the training and resources to leave, and Terry must decide whether he can act when familiar structures vanish. Their goal is safety two hundred miles away, but the distance becomes formidable without transport or dependable public services. Alex Knightly Books released the work in 2019, classifying it as post-apocalyptic science fiction. Knightly continues the story in Fighting Darkness, the second volume of the sequence. The first book focuses on collective problem-solving instead of isolated survival: people with different skills and temperaments must cooperate before danger, distrust, and scarcity pull them apart.