The Desert in the Dining Room

Come north of the Himalaya to the Taklamakhan desert where the Jinn have been released. Can Hassan and his friends save us from them? Captain Burnaby, a soldier serving in the British Army in Afghanistan in 1848 sacrifices himself to save two small children but finds that his life is anything but over. In a strange afterlife he finds himself on the front line of a very different war where, alongside other heroes, he strives to protect slumbering children the world over from evil spirits. Somewhere in 19th Century Tajikistan, a young boy follows a caravan of soldiers into the desert but can't remember how he got there or where he came from. In present day England three children find themselves dreaming vivid dreams of a place in the desert where there is a great whirlwind of sand, countless Jinn and an ambitious warlord called Yakub Beg. And In 1865, to the north of the Himalaya, in a place called Kashgar, lives the real Yakub Beg: a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his worldly ambitions of riches and power - even if that involves doing a deal with the Jinn. All paths lead to the Taklamakan Desert, a place shrouded in choking storms of dust and sand, where an unspeakable evil awaits them all...