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A Sea of Flames

A Sea of Flames

Summary

THE RIVETING AND UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FOR FANS OF STIEG LARSSON'S MILLENNIUM TRILOGY

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' THE TIMES
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Journalist Farah Hafez is after another killer story. But at what risk to herself? . . .

What connects the following:

In Saigon, 1965, war correspondent Raylan Chapelle suffers a horrifying experience.

Thirty years later, his son, newsman Paul Chapelle, is in Moscow to investigate an attack on his former colleague when he stumbles on a well-guarded secret.

And Farah herself, in the garden of the presidential palace in Kabul, is forced to relive a traumatic event from her childhood.

Different people. Different places. Different times.

But all entangled by threads of love and war - threads that Farah can't help but unravel, no matter the cost . . .

Reviews

  • Ambitious, intricate, riveting
    The Times

About the author

Walter Lucius

Walter Lucius is the pseudonym of screenwriter, director and producer Walter Goverde. Walter used to be a stage director, and has produced dramas, documentaries and various television series as well. He has also founded Odyssee Producties, an audio-visual company with which he has carried out several projects for a number of Dutch government ministries. Walter lives in Amsterdam.
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