Power in the Blood

Power in the Blood is an intelligent thriller about fundamentalism, politics , religion and love. Set in Washington, North Africa and Palestine during the run up to the war in Iraq, it is a page turner for readers who enjoy the thrill of adventure as well as the thrill of ideas.

With a cast of characters including a televangelist, CIA operatives, Islamists, Palestinian freedom fighters and a young English writer and a beautiful Palestinian refugee who find themselves caught up in something beyond their control.

Who are the shady government men who befriend Tony Wagner? What is behind the rumours about Pastor Wagner and young women? Why do people close to him die?

Set against the backdrop of the war on terror, journalist, Malachi Gray is following evangelist Tony Wagner’s mission across North Africa. His discoveries lead him to dark places of faith and doubt, as pursuer becomes pursued in a fight for survival, which climaxes in the Al Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem.

An adventure which becomes a love story; a story of lust, revenge, madness and political expedience as two people find each other across the religious and political divide.