Amazon has just released three new 2026 editions of my novel The War Zone ( Kindle , hardcover and paperback ) and I’m extremely pleased with each. The novel, as many of you know, is a heartbreaking psychological thriller told from the perspective of a fifteen year old boy, Tom, whose world is torn apart when he discovers that his father is sexually abusing his sister. Only to Tom, it is far more complicated than that. When I wrote the book in the late 1980s, my young son was dying of cancer. I had never heard the term “sexual predator” and so much of the book was written from instinct and memory, plus input from various women friends and the immediate trauma we were going through with our son, Joe Buffalo’s cancer. When the book was first published by Doubleday, The Los Angeles Times said: “Alexander Stuart’s The War Zone does for Britain now what Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange did a quarter of a century ago. It is several steps further into the n...
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