The story in Ratip’s debut novel revolves around the struggle of Turan Akova, who is a world-renowned pianist-composer, to prevent and eventually eliminate the extraterrestrial devil’s plans to dominate the world in a shocking and most audacious way. This is a heart-pounding suspense thriller with gruelling intensity. A monumentally scary and chillingly tense story. Italian poet Tasso’s words best describe Turan Akova, the hero of this novel: ‘Is it possible to transform a raging, devastating, destroying hurricane into a morning breeze, a mad sea into a charming lake, and lightning into a rose? I am speaking of the Turk. The Turk who is like a ruthless hurricane, a terrific sea, and a merciless lightning when attacking his enemy, is a morning breeze, and a clear lake with his friends or when facing a disarmed enemy. To change this charming breeze into a hurricane, this resplendent blue lake into a horrid sea, this rose with its fragrance of nobility to lightning would be indeed a blunder that would offend Nature itself...”
Arman Ratip, a pianist-composer of avant-garde music, was born in Cyprus. He began his piano lessons with his mother Jale Dervish at the age of five. Later, he recorded two albums for EMI and became well-known in the UK. He performed in North Cyprus, Turkey and in Europe extensively. Ratip is also the author of How to Play Backgammon by Hamlyn in the UK, in addition to his two fantasy fiction novels, The Devil’s Feather and King Devil, about his hero Turan Akova and his encounters with the Devil, novels depicting his research on UFOs.