Hello
my fellow poets, artists and poet aficionados!
I, Daniel Canada aka Obsidian, am making a departure from my usual
poetry newsletters to inform you that I have finally published my supernatural thriller,
fiction novel, entitled: The Shaitan.
To be sure, this undertaking took close to 10 years and was accomplished during
my homeless poet days, while I was busy on the poetry circuit and co-hosting “The Time Square Shout Out!” along with “The Shout Out @ Ottos!,” with my
sidekick, Hobobob.
I invite you all to purchase a copy and check it
out! What is more, I welcome your comments, criticisms and insights and would
love to get feedback from you, my fellow wordsmiths!
Presently, The
Shaitan (written under my nom de plume, Ashur
Etil Alani) is being sold online at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Epub,
Mobi (Kindle), Irf, Pdb for Palm and Kobo Ebooks sites, for $3.99 a copy. (It
should also be found on Nook, & will be sold as an ebook on Amazon.com at a
later date. For more information and updates you can follow me on my new blog
site: www.Ashuretilalani@blogspot.com
Here are the links to the ebook sites: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=The+Shaitan
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/The+Shaitan?_requestid=100538
https://www.smashwords.com/ (Click off the “Adult filter” button on
the top right of page before searching for book title The Shaitan in “search” field)
Yours truly,
Obsidian aka
Ashur Etil Alani
Here’s
a quick synopsis of the book!
The
Shaitan is a saga about Staff Sergeant Hank Donaldson, who
is a member of the elite 75th Regiment of the United States Army Rangers and a
decorated veteran of the recent Gulf Wars.
Staff Sergeant Donaldson is also an unwitting candidate in a secret
government psychic-warfare program, wherein he is unsuspectingly pitted against
the world's most wanted terrorist, Ismial Abdur Rahim.
Staff Sergeant Donaldson is on the prowl, chasing
Ismial, who goes by the code name The
Shaitan, through the most unlikely places, the poetry community of the
Lower East and West Sides of Manhattan. His pursuit will take him through all
the spoken word haunts of the artist communities, in an effort to catch Ismial
and eliminate him before he can launch a terrorist attack in the heart of New
York City.
Unbeknown to himself, Staff Sergeant Donaldson is also
being subtly dragged into the uncanny world of the occult. On the other side of
the world, in the city of Sana’a, Yemen, the treacherous Witch Queen, Jamilyah
has made her lair in the Middle East. There she covertly establishes numerous
cells of loyal Muslim sorcerers dedicated to destroying the United States and
bringing about mayhem to the Western world and the Middle East. Jamilyah and
her protégé, Ismial, scheme to rain down havoc upon the sons of mankind and to
bring about a New World Order under
the powers of The Great Dragon.
The
Shaitan is a fast moving narrative of one man's herculean
struggle against unseen forces, within and without, taking you from the teaming
alleyways of the Holy Land in Jerusalem and Yemen, to the bustling streets of
New York City, and through a labyrinth of deceit in the poetry community in the
Lower East and West Sides of Manhattan, all the way to its shocking finale.
