3 books · the series is complete
The Seventh Horn
The apocalypse is not a prophecy. It is a contract.
Apocalyptic geopolitical thriller · adult · for readers of Joel C. Rosenberg, Daniel Silva and Tom Clancy
The boy who sold water at the gates of Babylon grew up to be the assassin no government admits to hiring. Then the horns began to sound. The Seventh Horn is a three part end times thriller in which the apocalypse is not a prophecy but a project: seven engineered catastrophes, each matched to an ancient warning, each pushing two exhausted alliances closer to the war somebody is paying for. From the ruins of Babylon to blacked out capitals and the gates of the Caucasus, Samir and a scholar of Revelation race to prove that the end of the world has owners, and that a warning is not an instruction.
Reading order: The First Horn · Gog and Magog · The Last Horn
Book I of The Seventh Horn
The First Horn
An End Times Thriller of Prophecy and War
THE APOCALYPSE IS NOT A PROPHECY. IT IS A CONTRACT.
The boy who sold water at the gates of Babylon grew up to become the Ghost of Babylon, the assassin no government admits to hiring. Then a contract arrives that he cannot read as business. The target is Elias Venn, an ageing scholar whose only crime is a theory: that Revelation was never a script for what must happen, only a warning about what people would choose. Someone powerful wants the warning silenced. Four assassins took the contract before Samir. Three are dead. One disappeared. Samir does not believe in prophecy. He believes in patterns, exits and payment. But as he follows the money behind the contract, the first horn sounds, and the world begins moving to a schedule written thousands of years ago. Some contracts are not meant to be completed. Some warnings are not meant to survive.
Book II of The Seventh Horn
Gog and Magog
An End Times Thriller of Darkness and Deception
THE HORNS ARE SOUNDING ON SCHEDULE. SOMEONE IS PAYING FOR THEM.
The first horn was deniable. The second is not. Something enormous moves beneath the Mediterranean without identifying itself. Rivers turn bitter. Whole cities go dark. And in the war rooms of two alliances, planners begin matching each fresh catastrophe against a checklist older than either empire: Gog and Magog, the nations of the end. Samir knows the truth is worse than prophecy. Each horn is engineered. Each miracle has a supplier. And a group calling itself the Covenant is spending fortunes to make scripture come true on schedule. Proving it means crossing a world sliding into blackout, with his family inside the dark zone and both alliances shooting at shadows. The Covenant needs a war of the end times. All it takes is one more horn.
Book III of The Seventh Horn · the conclusion
The Last Horn
An End Times Thriller of the Final Warning
SIX HORNS HAVE SOUNDED. THE SEVENTH IS A CHOICE.
A colonel in a bunker south of Volgograd receives a genuine launch order, checks it three times, and refuses it. The world survives the night without ever knowing it nearly ended. Six horns have sounded. Armies face each other across the Euphrates. And in Babylon, where it all began, Samir assembles the only team that understands the truth: the apocalypse is a machine, and machines have owners. To silence the seventh horn they must do the one thing assassins, generals and prophets all agree is impossible. Not win the war. Refuse it. The last horn will sound. What happens after is the only prophecy left unwritten.
M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.