The Buck Passer

This first, in John Vaux's series of works of fact-based fiction, throw a whole new light on men and women who have been maligned in and by history. It is essentially a "Guess Who" novel. One in which, time, setting and real names have been ignored to gain the interest and participation of the reader; with the intention of keeping them guessing until its surprise end.

John Vaux, in his contemporary style, works in and around our preconceived ideas and prejudices about famous figures that history has condemned; challenging his readers' knowledge of the past (both ancient and modern) to come up with the name of the hero/heroine before the book's conclusion.

What begins as an unethical pre-trial conversation between a Judge and a soon-to-be-convicted criminal, evolves into a full-bodied chronicle of both men's lives. Of their lives and the people, both real and fictional who played a pivotal part in their extraordinary story.

We see the hero from childhood through to his ultimate disappearance into the mists of time, when history lost interest in him. Much of what happened to him throughout being a matter of conjecture - both then and to this day.

Probably more than any other living soul, he has left a question mark in the minds of philosophers, academics, theologians and the ordinary man in the street. All of them, perhaps, willing to accept the scant scraps of slanderous information that have been made available to them.

The Buck Passer looks to providing more. Seeking to humanise this man of mystery and create a common link between him and ourselves; one which helps to soften our judgement of him.

There are many out there who may not like what this novel has to say. How open-minded are you? Are you up for unravelling the truth and taking a more lateral look at his most brutal of men in history -- at him, and his savage times? It may put an entirely new spin on what you think you know. You might have to accept the fact that you'