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 Recently acquired by Penguin Books, South Africa, The House of War is a novel about the search for the ruins of an ancient Greek city founded by Alexander the Great in today’s war-torn northern Afghanistan. The book draws its inspiration from Michael Ondaatje, Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Sebastian Faulks and Ken Follett. Peopled with warlords, Al Qaeda renegades and NATO troops, The House of War is a psychological thriller, a spy story, a romance, and a quest.
Worldwide rights ex-SA are available. Contact Ronald Irwin for more information. SynopsisTashkent, Uzbekistan: When Al Qaeda terrorists shoot dead two American soldiers in a bar, Sebastian Richards, a brilliant 40-something British academic, is unexpectedly brought face to face with the sinister truth of his own life that he has hidden for over 30 years. He had come to Tashkent to fulfill a lifelong dream to make a documentary film and write a best-selling book on Alexander and his wife Roxane. The secret to their love, Sebastian believes, is held in a long-lost copy of Alexander’s Royal Diaries which was stored for millennia in the ancient city of Ay Khanoum in northern Afghanistan. |
