The Hollow Crown

They crossed the whole world to be safe. It followed them anyway.Displaced by war from a town that no longer exists, the Saadiq family arrives in a cold northern country carrying nothing but each other and a name. The father wants only one thing: a place his five sons can finally belong. But statelessness is its own kind of war, and in the rain-grey suburbs of Port Mercer, the eldest son draws a conclusion that will consume them all - if no country will ever keep them, they must build something no country can take.What they build is an empire. What it costs them is everything.Spanning three decades and four countries, THE HOLLOW CROWN follows five brothers as a two-hundred-dollar debt ignites a twenty-year blood feud, as a quiet capital city is quietly conquered, as a cold strategist becomes a stateless fugitive, and as the family's youngest son - the baby they crossed the world to protect - becomes the most wanted man in the nation and stages an escape no one believed possible.A propulsive, tragic crime thriller about loyalty turned lethal, about the machinery of vengeance, and about a mother who keeps a ledger the headlines never print. THE HOLLOW CROWN asks