The Hiss of Death: 902 Corpses

About this book

Between the silence of the depths and the din of pain, Ahmed is born; the diver who found no refuge in the sea, but found in it mirrors of departed souls he alone could raise to the surface. In Alexandria, the city washing its feet in salt water, our hero grew up in a house that was nothing but an arena of a cold war between a father crushed by the days and a mother work stripped from her children's embrace. His childhood was nothing but a chain of breakdowns, where he learned cruelty before he learned love, and the body accustomed to beating and punishment became a pliant tool in fate's hand to place him face to face with death. The Hiss of Death: no mere novel about floating corpses, but a journey into the labyrinths of the human psyche when forced to live in the twilight zone. Ahmed works recovering the bodies of the drowned, but finds himself entangled in a darker world; between hacking accounts for mysterious groups, dealing with merciless apparatuses, and reaching the exposure of the backstage of a trade that knows no sanctity for man. Is it the profession of fate or the curse of childhood.