Thriller: Children of Men by P.D. James

Literally a book of two halves - Omega and Alpha. People stop having children, no one knows why. Set 25 years after Omega (the year when the last child was born) and the hero is a middle aged Oxford historian, exactly unlike the heroes of Dan Brown tomes. Raises some interesting questions as to what would happen if the human race really did start to die out with a whimper rather than a bang, though sadly makes little effort to really discuss the why of the apparently resulting melancholy. Still, all hangs together reasonably well. The "police state" is painted with something of a heavy brush.

First book sets the scene, introduces the characters and explains some (though not enough) of the why. Second half is a mad dash across a small chunk of southern England with Big Brother (who also happens to be the hero's cousin) in warm pursuit. Surprisingly the hero gets the girl, nails the bad guy and rides off into the sunset. Really, this is surprising.

Still not really sure what I think about this. I enjoyed it though.