Bøger af Rob Dakin

War is coming, and once again Jeff, Aubrey, and Orhan find themselves in a deadly struggle they could neither anticipate nor avoid. Three years before, in Vale of Shadows, they barely survived a curse placed on their families five hundred years before during the Ottoman invasion of Albania. At that time, Jeff kept a trinket that belonged to the djinn, now that careless act has put him, Aubrey, and Orhan in grave danger, and the djinn are relentless in their pursuit to retrieve what is theirs. As the trio struggle for answers and survival their quest has them dodging the djinn at every turn through Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Albania. They ultimately forge an unlikely alliance with a reclusive Soviet space scientist, and a Spetsnaz Special Forces team on their own mercurial mission. Rob Dakin's thriller, Shadow's Keep, is the fast-paced, spellbinding sequel to Vale of Shadows, and follows the adventures and misadventures of three friends who are once again churned into a vortex of danger and intrigue. When they inadvertently spy into the realm of the djinn they are overwhelmed with the horror of realizing that something they thought they had lost was now found. Is there any hope? Are they too late? To save, they must first survive the forces determined to destroy them. Rob Dakin has been a dentist for thirty-two years, and has participated in numerous dental missions in Albania, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Kenya. He and his wife Karen have five children, and six grandchildren, and reside in Kansas.

In Rob Dakin's modern thriller, Vale of Shadows, readers are introduced to 20th Century Istanbul, six teenagers, and a corpse. It is the 1950's, and young Altin Guler understands that murder is afoot, having witnessed what appeared to be a killing of supernatural devise with five of his friends on the dark streets of Istanbul. Never in his imagination could he have expected to be thrust into a drama so frightening that he would leave his beloved Turkey, and flee to America. Mystery and unanswered questions abound until, decades later, when his son Jeff Smith, returns to Turkey as part of an earthquake relief team. Jeff reconnects with his college roommate, Orhan Aziz, a student from Turkey. It soon becomes terrifyingly clear that their friendship was no accident, and that their destinies have been intertwined for a soul, diabolical purpose. Jeff and Orhan find themselves in a deadly struggle for survival. A struggle that began five hundred years earlier during the Ottoman invasion of Albania when a curse was cast against the two families of Jeff and Orhan. Orhan's uncle Umet was also one of the six teenagers who witnessed the murder, and confides in the young men the story of the events that have brought them to this point in time. Jeff was drawn by destiny to come back to his father's Turkey, as the effects of the curse happen cyclicly once in a generation, and the recurrence of that cycle was imminent. As the story unfolds, the young men begin to understand that their only objective is survival. When they meet Aubrey and Jonathan, the four become trapped in a web of violence, with their only defense a clan of Roma sworn to protect the family of Orhan. In this gripping speculative fiction fraught with mysticism and revenge, love and determination, readers are swept into a vortex of treachery. Will the four survive? And what is this curse that they finally confront in the isolated mountains of Albania?