Book description
His heart was beating like a drum at dawn. Something clawed at
his stomach, something with talons from his worst nightmares.'
An invitation to visit one of Cairo's antiquarian booksellers sets
in train a series of terrifying ordeals for Jack Goodrich. Having
been shown a priceless sword claimed to have belonged to the Prophet
Muhammad, Jack returns home brimming with excitement. But that's
when the nightmare begins
A dangerous new movement within the ranks of fundamentalist Islam
wish to put a new Caliph on the throne, to rule the Muslim world. To
do this they require the Sword, and they will stop at nothing to get
it. With the deadliest of weapons in his hands, if the new Caliph
were to declare jihad, the consequences would be catastrophic.
A
tense and gripping thriller on a truly international scale that poses
a chilling question: how can you stop a holy war before it starts?
Daniel Easterman is the bestselling author of seventeen
international thrillers. Before taking up writing, he studied English,
Persian, Arabic and Islamic studies at the universities of Dublin,
Edinburgh and Cambridge, and lectured at the universities of Fez in
Morocco, and Newcastle upon Tyne. He has also written eight critically
acclaimed full-length novels as Jonathan Aycliffe. When not writing,
he listens to the sad and enchanting music of Portuguese fado and its
beautiful poetry. He lives in the north of England with his wife, the
health writer and homeopath Beth MacEoin.
