Coming Storm

Based on his smash hit podcast, The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse''s brilliant exploration of the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in the US. It''s a story that reaches back decades, showing how a dark fantasy embedded itself in the American consciousness, threatening to derail its democracy - and it continues to unfold today. Gatehouse''s riveting book takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reaches a crescendo on 6 January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol. But that event wasn''t the wild finale of a chaotic Trump presidency many hoped for - it was only the beginning. A compelling mix of reportage and personal experience, The Coming Storm gets under the skin of these conspiracy theories to show us a radical new kind of