Honor - Paperback

by Freddie Omm (Author)

What does honor mean when everything around you is for sale?

Azeem is a pacifist, an ex-comrade, and a man trying to put his past behind him. But when his former brothers in faith launch a campaign of murderous havoc across Leeds and London, he has no choice but to get back in the game-before the violence reaches Shirin, the razor-sharp Anglo-Persian woman who refuses to be rescued, whom he loves but hasn't yet deserved.

The trail leads through the louche back rooms of European adland-where Wythenshawe, an old-school image merchant, and the sinister Dr Klinker are doing very well out of other people's identities-through the grey skies of Düsseldorf and the drawing rooms of Scotland, to a sun-drenched showdown on the Turkish sea.

Fast, funny and never flippant, Honor is a love story disguised as a thriller, a satire on consumer capitalism wearing the clothes of a crime novel-and a meditation on what a man must become before he's worthy of the woman he suspects may see through him.

Darkly humorous. Sharply observed. Uncomfortably close to tomorrow's headlines.
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Freddie Omm, lifelong migrant and expatriate, is a native of nowhere who's written all over the world.

Honor, his debut thriller, is a story uncomfortably close to tomorrow's headlines... and it shares this with The Trashman, his fourth book, where our society's also at war with itself, and nothing-and no one-is indisposable.

His two poetry books, Sicilian Haiku-Migrant Shadows, and along comes a war, give all their profits to refugees and Ukraine.

He lives in The Hague, City of Peace and Justice.

Author Biography

Freddie Omm is an award-winning advertizing writer who has worked on famous global campaigns at some of the world's most creative agencies. Born in Holland, he grew up in the USA, England and Indonesia. He got a first class degree from Oxford before working in London, Milan, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf. He now lives in a rambling old house in a small town in Germany with his wife, daughter and dog. "Honor" is his first novel.