Taoudenni

About the Book

A mysterious adventurer, operating under a curse that he cannot fathom, wanders the earth ceaselessly, siring children in his wake. He is pursued by a young woman obeying her mother’s deathbed command to track him down and punish him. The man may or may not be her father; the punishment is for an offense that may or may not have happened. But the woman is relentless and beyond reason. Both of them consult a powerful oracle in Timbuktu on their way to a final reckoning at one of the most desolate hellholes on earth, the salt mines of Taoudenni, a Saharan prison from which few return. In Taoudenni, they are brought face-to-face with the consequences of their compulsions.

About the Author

James Lawson has written twenty screenplays, including The Madman’s Kiss, Going Nowhere, The Hare, The Immortal, Ulrike, and the trailer for the movie Star Wars. He’s also written thirteen novels and the TV docudrama Frederick Law Olmsted, which won the CINE Golden Eagle. Lawson studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and Boston University. He lives in New York City with his wife, Katharine, a biopsychologist and associate professor of pediatrics. They have two children—Victoria, a forensic psychologist, and Nicholas, a doctor.