When fate leads him to Southern Rhodesia on the cusp of independence, Melvyn journeys into a landscape riven by remarkable beauty and looming rupture, confronting both personal and colonial complicity.
As conflicting loyalties and uneasy alliances demand choices, Melvyn must reckon with the true price of belonging—even as ambition draws him deeper into a world where betrayal may be the only constant.
John Glynn is the author of five novels that explore human resilience, belonging, and the search for meaning against landscapes both harsh and beautiful. His work is marked by an abiding fascination with place—whether the sapphire waters of Australia’s coastline, the raw wilderness of Southern Africa, or the icy solitude of a Nordic winter—and how those environments shape the choices and inner lives of his characters. John Glynn lives in Sydney, Australia.