Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar Cerulean Chronicles Book one of the New

Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series

whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying

the kingdom's protective wards are failing

From bestselling author Sarah J

with Charlotte Rampling

Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar Cerulean Chronicles Book one of the NewCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mothers plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his fathers life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his pasttoward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields