BookRix

Looking back today over the creation of Azimuth I become aware of what I was trying to do in a way that may have been unclear during the ten years it took to write. I wanted to construct a gripping, popular story but with smart writing. I wanted to discuss the good and the bad in life; war, death, god, love and friendship. We live in frightening times and most of us cannot understand why it should be so. When the Great Powers and so many individual governments use anonymous killing machines and complex economic pillaging to further their ends, putting millions to death via desperate poverty and the sword, we feel powerless and scared