An empire on the brink of collapse. A gripping tale of war and peace, love and death. The political intrigue of John le Carré's 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' meets the magical realism of Isabelle Allende's 'The House of the Spirits'. The story begins in 1955 during the deadly clash between Cypriot freedom fighters and the British Empire. Alex, an introverted teenage mathematics prodigy from a poor home, is forced to leave Cyprus and fulfil his destiny as a mystical peacemaker. As Alex reluctantly boards a British warship to Southampton, an Oxford professor on an intelligence mission recruits him to work for national security, throwing him into a lion's den of colonial intrigue with destiny-altering consequences. "A story of mysticism and Cyprus' enigmatic past." Cyprus Mail "Masterly magical realism." Westfalen Blatt