Foundry is Eliot Peper’s 11th novel and I’ve read them all for a good reason. I’ve enjoyed his characters and the plots. While that’s true about this book too, this one is remarkably different. Eliot reports that he awoke from a dream with the beginning of a story, and he decided he would use those lines to write his next book.
The author wrote, “It wasn’t that she was holding a gun to my head. It was that I could see the safety was still on. She thought I was completely at her mercy, which was what put her at mine.” This is a spy story, two spies, Adrian and Caroline. The two of them are locked in a room together but there’s only one gun. It’s a story about how semiconductors are changing 21st century geopolitics.
Rather than have an outline prepared for where he would start the book and where he would take the story, in a Stephen King sort of writing system (and I’m not really a fan of Stephen King), Eliot started at the beginning of a dream and let the story develop from there. It was as if this incredibly creative man allowed himself to unleash that creativity in a way he had never done before, which led him to this fantastic story. It’s obvious from his writing that the author fully enjoyed the writing process in a way he had not with his prior 10 books. This novel gets my highest recommendation. If you’ve not read Eliot Peper, it’s time to get to it.
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