A city of spies, bridging East and West, on the eve of a world war.

 

After the Flood
By Alec Marsh

Publication Date: 23rd July 2024

Publisher: Sharpe Books

Page Length: 267 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction / Thriller

Istanbul, 1938.

A city of spies, bridging East and West, on the eve of a world war.

Cambridge historian Ernest Drabble and his wife, Charlotte, arrive in the city for their honeymoon — bringing along Drabble’s old friend and best man, journalist Percival Harris. The pair have been inseparable since their school days and time at Oxford, and, despite their disagreements, are more like brothers.

Following an unsettling encounter at the Hagia Sophia there’s a suspicious break-in at Harris’s hotel room. Then Charlotte suddenly vanishes. Harris, meanwhile, has fallen for the charms of Yasmin Yildiz - a woman who turns out to be closely connected to a high-profile Turkish nationalist politician.

Before they know it, Drabble, Harris and Charlotte are plunged into a dangerous conspiracy, one that could change the course of Turkish history and threaten to destabilise the global order at a critical moment in world affairs.

At the heart of the intrigue is a Nazi-backed bid to uncover a sacred artefact, one that has laid hidden in the remote mountains of Eastern Turkey for more than 10,000 years – Noah’s Ark.

The game's afoot.

But who can be trusted and who is telling the truth? Only by ascending the treacherous snowy heights of Mount Ararat will Drabble, Harrisand Charlotte be reunited andfind the answers they are looking for.

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Alec Marsh

Alec Marsh is the author of the Drabble & Harris historical thriller series. His first book, ‘Rule Britannia’, is set against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis in 1936 – and was described by Rebus-creator Ian Rankin as ‘a rollicking good read’. The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency author Alexander McCall Smith noted it was ‘an immensely readable treat’. It was published in 2019 by Headline. 

The second novel in the series – ‘Enemy of the Raj’ – is set in India in 1937 and was released in 2020.

The third Drabble and Harris book, 'Ghosts of the West', was published in 2021.

The fourth book in the series, 'After the Flood', was published in July 2024 by Sharpe Books, and is set in Istanbul and Turkey in 1938.

Alec was born in Essex and studied history at university before embarking on a career in journalism. Over the last 25 years he has written for most of the national newspapers as well as for the New Statesman, the Spectator and Country Life. He is a contributing editor of Spear’s magazine, and lives in north Essex.

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