"Honour": published by Mad Bear Books, March 2012.
A fast-paced, blackly humorous thriller,
it's a controversial meditation on modern evil.
As a naive teenager, Azeem went to a jihadi training camp in Afghanistan. He learned how to hate the West. Now he’s in his twenties he loves his cool, settled London life. His beautiful lover, Shirin… his chilled-out flat in Bloomsbury… the stirring spiritual certainties of meditating and the mosque…
But when a young girl he knows is attacked for her western ways, Azeem wakes up to the more lethal ideals of some of his comrades in faith. Atrocities mount up—a car bomb in London, a rabbi attacked, a gay pub bombed—and one by one, Azeem’s certainties are ripped to shreds.
Then Azeem’s lover Shirin is kidnapped. He knows he has to use the killing skills he learned in Afghanistan to free her and take revenge.
Idealistic Azeem gets pulled into a tragicomic nightmare, stumbling through a terrifying series of misunderstandings and conflicts, which culminate in a bloody confrontation on the Turkish coast.
"Honour" is a controversial, topical thriller, shot through with shafts of black comedy, about trying to be true to oneself in a world of lies...
Loosely based on real events, it is rooted in ancient Persian fairy tales and myths.