SONS OF THE GREAT SATAN - ABNA 2013 Entry

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry - this eBook is a sample of the first 3,000-5,000 words; it is not the full book. The ABNA contest is operated on Amazon.com only. Visit this entry on Amazon.com to leave customer feedback. To vote for the Grand Prize winner starting May 21, visit www.amazon.com/ABNA.

Joey Andrews loves electric guitars, hanging out and smoking hashish. It's the rock'n'roll 70s and the perfect time to be an American teenager, but there's one catch: Joey lives in Tehran, Iran and the country is plunging into bloody revolution.

SONS OF THE GREAT SATAN is a thrilling coming of age story set in a violent time of political and social upheaval. This 132,000 word novel is told on an epic scale and filled with full-dimensional characters whose conflicting viewpoints will clash and escalate into a whirlwind of chaos. The political and religious themes expressed in SONS are as timely as today's headlines but played out in a bygone era of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.

Terry Andrews has just finished a five year defense contract in Saudi Arabia only to return home to find the USA mired in recession and unemployment. Hungry for work and hoping to salvage his failing marriage, he takes his wife, Diane, and his son, Joey, half-way around the world to an ancient civilization whose oil wealth is funding rapid change.

Under the bold and imperial leadership of Shahanshah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran is thrust into the modern age bringing great progress to some and seething resentment from others. In the midst of these tumultuous times, Joey finds a friend in an Iranian classmate, Farhad Zadeh, whose father is a Colonel in SAVAK, the Shah's notorious internal security force. As the boys rock'n'roll all night and party every day, the sparks of revolution burst into flames and the thrilling third act leaves no one untouched.

SONS OF THE GREAT SATAN is a tale of two nations and two friends bound by blood and violence. It is the twilight of an empire whose fall will change the world.