Books with title Escape from Babylon

What did it feel like to live in and serve Nazi Germany then be torn away from everything you knew only to be finally dumped back into the new world of Communist East Germany? Or was it new? Through the turbulent times of Franz Schmidt, feel how terror and disillusionment morphs into Boa constrictor, Gestapo into Stasi, trust into deceit. Only one constant theme gives him hope. “Escape from Babylon is an astonishingly well written first novel. A cross between Jeffrey Archer and Ian McEwan, it is an emotional roller coaster set against the uncertainties of post-war Europe. The main characters are sympathetic, and the baddies horrible.” Sarah Challis 11 time best-selling novelist "I am from former East Germany and live in Canada. This book is fantastic...it's our past and the story feels so real. Loved to read it!" Gabrielle Pahnke, Kindle purchaser.Why did I write Escape from Babylon?I am English but have lived in East Germany for 17 years. Here I have met and listened to many WW2 veterans as well as practically every day hearing something from my acquaintances, friends and family about life in the DDR. It struck me that these WW2 and DDR generations are getting older and starting to die and as they do so their stories, memories and emotions of their times will die with them. Soon it will all only be cold facts in a history book. What a terrible shame. I decided that these emotions, the feelings of the ordinary people who were subjected to these systems should not be lost with them. That others should understand what it was like should be recorded and could best be told, not as a history book, but as a novel. A novel that is naturally full of accurate facts but a novel that gives the reader the knowledge and the pleasure of that knowledge in knowing the attitudes, social and physical constraints, hopes and fears of these real life generations before they disappear. So I wrote Escape from Babylon! Best wishesChris

What did it feel like to live in and serve Nazi Germany then be torn away from everything you knew only to be finally dumped back into the new world of Communist East Germany? Or was it new? Through the turbulent times of Franz Schmidt, feel how terror and disillusionment morphs into Boa constrictor, Gestapo into Stasi, trust into deceit. Only one constant theme gives him hope. “Escape from Babylon is an astonishingly well written first novel. A cross between Jeffrey Archer and Ian McEwan, it is an emotional roller coaster set against the uncertainties of post-war Europe. The main characters are sympathetic, and the baddies horrible.” Sarah Challis 11 time best-selling novelist I am from former East Germany and live in Canada. This book is fantastic...it's our past and the story feels so real. Loved to read it!" Gabrielle Pahnke, Kindle purchaser.

Pax Romana: Escape from Babylon continues the story of Captain Mark Knutson, who lives in a Rome now in ruins. Seren has risen to power, and his evil influence is spreading. The sequel to Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren features fascinating new characters who prepare Mark for his eventual confrontation with Seren: his mysterious Chinese mentor Mei-Li, the beautiful Swedish kickboxer Rakel, and Japanese tech-whiz Tomoyuki. As a warrior, Mark transitions from using technological weapons to wielding supernatural ones in a dazzling display of the powers of good against the growing darkness. Mark engages in clashes with hideous creatures, culminating in the ultimate battle with the ultimate evil.MICHAEL THOMAS first dreamed of becoming a space traveler—or at least a science fiction writer—after seeing the 1956 film, Forbidden Planet. He held on to that dream all the way up to the writing of Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren and Pax Romana II: Escape from Babylon. He currently teaches Spanish and world literature and philosophy in the Great Texts Program at Baylor University.

Megan and Ainsley have lived next door to each other their whole lives, but their relationship is anything but neighborly. Ainsley is the cutest, most popular guy in school, and even has a group of girls who call themselves his fan club. Outspoken and fiery, Megan is an individual who thinks Ainsley is full of himself-and she doesn't mind letting him know what she thinks. The two stumble upon a neighbor who is performing some sort of strange magic, and find themselves transported into a magical new world. Stuck together in an unfamiliar land with no escape, Megan and Ainsley encounter floating cities inhabited by magical creatures of all kinds-and find themselves pursuing a thief who has stolen a staff with magical powers. Can Megan and Ainsley work together to find the staff of power and save the kingdom, or will they find that there is no escape from Arylon?

Pax Romana: Escape from Babylon continues the story of Captain Mark Knutson, who lives in a Rome now in ruins. Seren has risen to power, and his evil influence is spreading. The sequel to Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren features fascinating new characters who prepare Mark for his eventual confrontation with Seren: his mysterious Chinese mentor Mei-Li, the beautiful Swedish kickboxer Rakel, and Japanese tech-whiz Tomoyuki. As a warrior, Mark transitions from using technological weapons to wielding supernatural ones in a dazzling display of the powers of good against the growing darkness. Mark engages in clashes with hideous creatures, culminating in the ultimate battle with the ultimate evil. MICHAEL THOMAS first dreamed of becoming a space traveler—or at least a science fiction writer—after seeing the 1956 film, Forbidden Planet. He held on to that dream all the way up to the writing of Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren and Pax Romana II: Escape from Babylon. He currently teaches Spanish and world literature and philosophy in the Great Texts Program at Baylor University.