We’ll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars.

As the twentieth century dawns the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not inevitable? What if a machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to influence people’s minds? And what if such a machine could put an end to violence for ever?

The search for the answer to these questions will lead our hero Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from Istanbul to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out for humanity.

Contents

1.The Tangles of a Tongue-Twister
2.A Halal Duel
3.Checkmate
4.The Winged Bats are Right
5.The Hubris of Might
6.Wild Cherries
7.The Young Lieutenant
8.A Fool's Aid
9.The Doomed Palace
10.The Death of a Corpse
11.The.Circus Dervish
12.TheMummified Lion
13.Timelessness
14.A Rather Trying Matter
15.The Peace Machine