The Tyrant's NovelImagine a Middle Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until he is made an offer he can't refuse. He must write a great novel, telling of the suffering of his people under the enemy's cruel economic sanctions and portraying Great Uncle as their

tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail

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but as Rose grows into a young adult

The writing moves from horror to humour with terrifying ease

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But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance - she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes

When confronted by this horrific scene the normally dispassionate homicide detective Javier Falcn is inexplicably afraid

he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed

But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy

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