Books & Literature
King Pawn
By Raj Shekhar
No one wins in a war. Robert Frost, a former soldier born to an American father and a Syrian mother, accepts a $30-million assignment to destabilise Syria’s regime. His motive is deeply personal: the money could help him reunite with his estranged wife and two daughters. Operating under the aliases Iftikar and Louai, he intensifies an existing uprising while Russian intelligence closes in. As his Syrian allies face devastating consequences, Robert discovers that he, too, is being manipulated. Drawing on firsthand experience in Syria and extensive historical research, King Pawn is a geopolitical thriller about divided loyalties, deception and the human cost of war—where even those who believe they control the game may be expendable.
Content note: Contains graphic violence, torture, sexual violence and suicide.
