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Honor
Paperback
ISBN13: 9783943829037
Publisher: Mad Bear Books
Published: Mar 23 2012
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does honor mean when everything around you is for sale?
Azeem is a pacifist, an ex-comrade, and a man trying to put his past behind him. But when his former brothers in faith launch a campaign of murderous havoc across Leeds and London, he has no choice but to get back in the game-before the violence reaches Shirin, the razor-sharp Anglo-Persian woman who refuses to be rescued, whom he loves but hasn't yet deserved.
The trail leads through the louche back rooms of European adland-where Wythenshawe, an old-school image merchant, and the sinister Dr Klinker are doing very well out of other people's identities-through the grey skies of Düsseldorf and the drawing rooms of Scotland, to a sun-drenched showdown on the Turkish sea.
Fast, funny and never flippant, Honor is a love story disguised as a thriller, a satire on consumer capitalism wearing the clothes of a crime novel-and a meditation on what a man must become before he's worthy of the woman he suspects may see through him.
Darkly humorous. Sharply observed. Uncomfortably close to tomorrow's headlines.
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Freddie Omm, lifelong migrant and expatriate, is a native of nowhere who's written all over the world.
Honor, his debut thriller, is a story uncomfortably close to tomorrow's headlines... and it shares this with The Trashman, his fourth book, where our society's also at war with itself, and nothing-and no one-is indisposable.
His two poetry books, Sicilian Haiku-Migrant Shadows, and along comes a war, give all their profits to refugees and Ukraine.
He lives in The Hague, City of Peace and Justice.
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