The Tyrant's Novel

Powerful, timely, controversial and deadly in its aim, this is the best novel Tom Keneally has ever written. Winner of the Booker-Prize for Schindlers Ark. Its one of those books that makes you think without making you work - its a great read first and foremost. The rest creeps up on you. An oil-rich country. A tyrant. A deadline to die for Trapped behind barbed wire in an alien land, a man used to guarding his secrets is compelled to set the record straight Imagine a faraway country that was once a friend of the West becoming the enemy, its people isolated and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As one of the country's most celebrated writers and a war hero, the storyteller has a better life than most until he is made an offer he can't refuse. He must write a great novel, telling of the suffering of his people under the enemy's cruel economic sanctions and portraying Great Uncle as their saviour. This masterpiece must be completed in time for its international debut in three months or else. If the writer cannot or will not meet the tyrant's deadline, he and anyone he cares for will pay the ultimate price.Stark, terrifying and utterly compelling, The Tyrant's Novel is both a gripping thriller and a chilling glimpse of a fictional world that seems all too real.