We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

The message was short: I want to see you now. I want you to come to me it doesn't matter how late it is and tell me exactly what you want from me. Like the world around him at the dawn of the 21st century Adam Kellas' life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart.Against his better judgement Kellas - divorced unstable spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts a war assignment from his newspaper. It is the beginning of a journey which takes him from the mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London the marshlands of the American South and ultimately to the darkest realms of the human imagination. Only the memory of the beautiful elusive Astrid a fellow reporter in Afghanistan offers him the possibility of hope.