More About the Author
An award-winning and best-selling author of nine non-fiction books, Dean King has chased stories across Europe, Asia, and Africa. His goal is to draw you into a rich, nuanced, and accurate historical narrative that allows you to live with the characters, to feel their pain, suffering, striving, and joy, and to grow with them. He prefers that you decide what you think about the characters' decisions and actions, rather than telling you what to think. He rides the camels, climbs the 14,000 foot passes, walks the yardarms,and tracks down far flung sources to bring you the sounds, smells, sights and insights you need. Then he writes and edits until his knuckles have no skin, his elbows ache, and his family is looking for him, all to give you pleasure in lean, melodic, and meaningful prose. In the end if he makes you desperate to take his book and hit your favorite easy chair or crawl into bed and curl up with it, he's happy. If you learn something or feel changed, then it's all the better.
