Dan Douglass

Broschiertes Buch

The Powder Monkey of Algiers

Beschreibung

January 1957, Algiers. Caught up in a colonial battle marked by treachery, discrimination and torture, 15 year-old Simeon Abu struggles to find out where his father's true loyalties lie. Subjected to the controlling influence of a brutal French army captain, Simeon's own actual and psychological journey is echoed through the labyrinthine twists and turns of the Casbah and La Zone autonome d'Alger. His search leads to a series of revelations that will blow his family's world wide open and set Simeon on his own path to independence.

Autor

After a degree in English at Brasenose College, Oxford, Dan went into advertising as a copywriter and Creative Director before emerging to pursue his love of creative writing. The Powder Monkey of Algiers is his third novel. Dan's first novel, Stuff, is a posthumous collaboration with his TV playwright/screenwriter father, whose legacy to him was not only his original manuscripts, but a wealth of learning, knowledge and technique in the writing craft. Dan's second novel, The Nearly Man, is a work of speculative fiction based on the Apollo 11 moon landings-a thriller and a 'sliding doors' reimagining of the mission gone wrong. Dan has written numerous screenplays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781398450165
• ISBN-10: 1398450162
• Artikelnr.: 66995879