The jungle and the war follow the same rule: A bitter fate devours the family and the whole world of a little boy. Arun is only a slave, a talking tool of the Khmer, and in a lost country nobody cares about his suffering. Despair turns into anger and from anger the thirst for revenge arises. And when Arun rises up, the story of the largest and most beautiful religious monument on the earth begins. The first historical adventure novel about the legendary miracle and the beginning of an immortal story.

Jan Erhard was born in 1969 in Bochum, Germany, grew up in Rüsselsheim and studied Philosophy and History in Berlin. Since 2003 he has been working on novels about the rise and fall of Angkor, the miracle in Cambodia. His Books are now published in a new edition - and for the first time in English. Jan Erhard lives with his Family in Teltow, Brandenburg.