Peter Thomson

Drive For Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

At the end of a gruelling day's work in their father's cotton field in northern Afghanistan, Houshmad Wahidi, middle of three teenage brothers, came up with a plan to steal pomegranates. Albeit with reluctance, his siblings agreed, but the theft went seriously wrong. Houshmad had to flee the province after his brothers denounced him. He swore vengeance against them and walked south to Beghlan, where he gave himself into the bondage and sexual-servitude as a dancing boy to The Uzbek - the region's warlord, gangster and principal people trafficker.

Nurturing his hatred for his brothers, he applied himself diligently to his situation. Thirty years later he had become a rich and powerful man in his own right. He controlled The Uzbek's legitimate and criminal activities as the warlord's right-hand man. It was now time to settle his feud with his brothers.

One had already disappeared but. Kahmi, the younger brother, had fled the Taliban to the safety of the UK. Houshmad vowed to make Kahmi's life a misery and to put his sons through the shame and ignominy of the dancing boy culture that he had suffered. He had already ensnared Kahmi's two older boys and only, Armagan remained - the apple of his parents' eyes and their hopes for a better future. On Armagan's fourteenth birthday, Houshmad's evil reached out for the boy.

DRIVE FOR FREEDOM is a fiction, based on fact, and in three parts. It describes the ancient Pashtun gender reversal culture of dancing boys as it operate in Afghanistan today, its apparent anomaly with the teachings of Islam and the workings of people trafficking gangs in the UK.

At the end of a gruelling day's work in their father's cotton field in northern Afghanistan, Houshmad Wahidi, middle of three teenage brothers, came up with a plan to steal pomegranates. Albeit with reluctance, his siblings agreed, but the theft went seriously wrong. Houshmad had to flee the province after his brothers denounced him. He swore vengeance against them and walked south to Beghlan, where he gave himself into the bondage and sexual-servitude as a dancing boy to The Uzbek - the region's warlord, gangster and principal people trafficker.

Nurturing his hatred for his brothers, he applied himself diligently to his situation. Thirty years later he had become a rich and powerful man in his own right. He controlled The Uzbek's legitimate and criminal activities as the warlord's right-hand man. It was now time to settle his feud with his brothers.

One had already disappeared but. Kahmi, the younger brother, had fled the Taliban to the safety of the UK. Houshmad vowed to make Kahmi's life a misery and to put his sons through the shame and ignominy of the dancing boy culture that he had suffered. He had already ensnared Kahmi's two older boys and only, Armagan remained - the apple of his parents' eyes and their hopes for a better future. On Armagan's fourteenth birthday, Houshmad's evil reached out for the boy.

DRIVE FOR FREEDOM is a fiction, based on fact, and in three parts. It describes the ancient Pashtun gender reversal culture of dancing boys as it operate in Afghanistan today, its apparent anomaly with the teachings of Islam and the workings of people trafficking gangs in the UK.

Drive For Freedom is a compound trilogy in the contemporary crime, literary and

social fiction genres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Thomson
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386332381
• Artikelnr.: 55758698

Autorenporträt

Peter Thomson has lived a rich and varied life as a soldier, commercial seafarer and businessman. He was born under the Gemini star sign and raised in a village on the outskirts of the old Roman city of St.Albans.

Humour and tease tempered the hard manual work of the family's day. Peter quickly developed his wits to give as good as he got. Whenever his father ribbed him,he would come back with 'You weren't at Mum's bedside when I was born. You were away at the beach with your mates.' It felled his father with laughter each time it was said.

Thomson's father was fighting the rear guard action at Dunkirk when Peter came into the world. Some beach!

Motivated by unfairness and injustice in our society, Peter will often craft his fiction around real events.

'Nobody has gone to jail yet for inflicting the sub-prime mortgage scam on the world. 'That has to be wrong,' according to Thomson.

He makes the point along with an explanation of how it happened, and the unregulated corporate greed that engineered it in the second volume of his 'The Stopover' series.

He now lives in South West France with his wife and a colony of feral cats.

When not writing articles and books, Peter grows enormous quantities of fruit and vegetables.

In addition to continuing The Stopover series, Peter's other work in progress - Drive For Freedom - about an Afghan family's flight from evil."