{"id":16795,"date":"2021-09-11T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=16795"},"modified":"2021-09-01T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:58:20","slug":"the-migrant-by-paul-alkazraji-themigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=16795","title":{"rendered":"The Migrant by Paul Alkazraji #THEMIGRANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16809\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Migrant\" width=\"2245\" height=\"1587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1.jpeg 2245w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1-1024x724.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1-768x543.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1-1536x1086.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image1-1-2048x1448.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2245px) 100vw, 2245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16810\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Migrant\" width=\"1522\" height=\"2338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1.jpeg 1522w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1-195x300.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1-768x1180.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1-1000x1536.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image2-1-1333x2048.jpeg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1522px) 100vw, 1522px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">BLURB<\/h2>\n<p>Fascist populists, callous sex-traffickers and murderous mafia gangs &#8211; these were not what Pastor Jude Kilburn had expected to face when he moved to Albania. But when vulnerable 19-year-old Alban disappears from his poverty-stricken village to seek work in Greece, Jude has to undertake the perilous journey across the mountains to try and rescue him from the ruthless Athenian underworld. Accompanied by a volatile secret-service agent and a reformed gangster, Jude soon finds himself struggling to keep everyone together as personal tensions rise and violent anti-austerity riots threaten to tear them apart and undermine the mission. Caught between cynical secret police and a brutal crime syndicate, the fate of them all will be determined by a trafficked girl &#8211; but not every one will make it home. The Migrant is a tense and evocative thriller with a powerful redemptive twist.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">EXCERPT<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Chapter One Part Three<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ssshhh &#8230; budalla,\u2019 hissed Ervin as he stepped back and lifted him by the arm. When he was upright, Alban yanked it back and glared again at him. He walked briskly for the next hour close behind him, listening as the trees rose around them and the darkness between them deepened. At one point they came upon a wolf cub lying alone on its side at the track\u2019s edge. Its breathing was shallow and rapid. Alban squatted down beside it and gently lifted its head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018Oh, how bad,\u2019 he whispered to Ervin. A little blood from its mouth came off on his fingers. He remembered his uncle Skender and the argument they\u2019d had: the shock and the hurt when Skender struck him across the mouth forwards and backwards. He loved Skender. It was the raki: he drank too much of it. Well, he was nineteen now, not fifteen, and old enough to make his own decisions. He wanted to take the cub and nurse it. He brushed a tear from his cheek, partly for Skender, and left it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The track came to an arched, stone bridge just wide enough for a cart to cross, and Alban stopped to peer over the side. The sound of trickling water came up from the ravine where a cluster of fireflies were gyrating around each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018Ervin, shall we stop a little? What time is it?\u2019 he asked quietly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018Let\u2019s get across that clearing &#8230; by the edge of those trees. It\u2019s gone ten.\u2019 They passed a circle of blackened stones that lay around the charred remains of branches, plastic bags and empty Tirana Beer cans. \u2018Albanians &#8230; always leave the local picnic spots clean when they leave. Why don\u2019t they mark the route with arrows so the Greeks know where to wait for us?\u2019 said Ervin with disgust. Alban slumped down on the grass by him and lay on his back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018Hey! Ervin, that was close. I thought you\u2019d done this before?\u2019 said Alban. Ervin looked away, avoiding the embarrassment of an acknowledgement, thought Alban. \u2018So, what are the Greeks like?\u2019 he continued. \u2018Do they cook their pilaf like us?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018You\u2019ll see them soon enough,\u2019 said Ervin. \u2018There are good and bad ones &#8230; the army are the worst. They could shoot you in these parts in the early years. They caught a group of Albanians once and made them all climb up a tree. Then they cut it down \u2013 laughing \u2013 as they fell through the branches, like it was sport.\u2019 He then smiled and wiggled his finger as if it was swimming through water. \u2018They like their pilaf with seafood in it. Prawns.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alban felt a coldness entering him despite the warmth of the June night. He drew his sack closer and untied the string around its neck. He lifted out a jar of village cherries in syrup with a spoon, and some sardines fried in flour and wrapped in newspaper his mother had cooked yesterday. Then he pulled out a roll of plastic sheeting for sleeping under. Lastly, he took out his best training shoes. They were white with a black tick on the side. He buffed them with the edge of his T-shirt while he ate a little.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018They are originals, not Turkish,\u2019 he snapped as he noticed Ervin\u2019s sceptical look. They were like his cousin Shpetim used to wear. They would help him make a good impression on Greek employers, he thought. He\u2019d find work, despite the crisis. He would show them that he was a good worker too. He could put his hand to many things: plastering, picking peaches \u2013 he even knew a little about plumbing. He picked up a tiny, tin compass that had rolled out onto the ground. It had the flag of Great Britain on the back and the white wheel of the London Eye on its face. He tapped it and noted where the needle pointed and then where south-east was, deeper into Greece, where the distant silhouette of a watchtower could be seen just above the treeline. \u2018Want some fish?\u2019 he said and passed the sardines over to Ervin as he stuffed the other items back inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">BUY LINK<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B07M8XWS84\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B07M8XWS84\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16807\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Migrant\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Alkazraji worked as a freelance journalist in the UK from the mid-nineties. His articles were published in Christianity Magazine, The Christian Herald, The Church Times, The Baptist Times and other publications. His travel articles were also published in The Independent. His first book Love Changes Everything, a collection of seven testimonies, was published by Scripture Union in 2001. His second book Heart of a Hooligan, a biography of ex-football hooligan Dave Jeal, was published by Highland Books in 2000. His third book Christ and the Kalashnikov, a biography of missionaries Ian and Caralee Loring, was published by Zondervan in 2001. From 2004 to 2010 he was editor and publisher of Uj\u00ebvar\u00eb magazine in Albania. His first novel, &#8216;The Silencer&#8217;, was published by Highland Books in 2012. His new novel, &#8216;The Migrant&#8217;, set in Albania and Athens during the austerity troubles, was published by Instant Apostle in February 2019.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">FOLLOW ON<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>TWITTER: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paul_alkazraji\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/paul_alkazraji<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Muthena-Paul-Alkazraji\/e\/B0034OJYLK\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Muthena-Paul-Alkazraji\/e\/B0034OJYLK\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>GOODREADS:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5655990.Paul_Alkazraji\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5655990<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5655990.Paul_Alkazraji\">.Paul_Alkazraji<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16835\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2245\" height=\"1587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index.jpg 2245w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/index-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2245px) 100vw, 2245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16808\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1.png\" alt=\"Migrant\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1.png 500w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image0-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLURB Fascist populists, callous sex-traffickers and murderous mafia gangs &#8211; these were not what Pastor Jude Kilburn had expected to face when he moved to Albania. But when vulnerable 19-year-old Alban disappears from his poverty-stricken village to seek work in Greece, Jude has to undertake the perilous journey across the mountains to try and rescue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=16795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Migrant by Paul Alkazraji #THEMIGRANT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,1271,6,1880],"tags":[106,228,1881],"class_list":["post-16795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promo","category-crimemystery","category-novels","category-paul-alkazraji","tag-authors-2","tag-novels-2","tag-paul-alkazraji"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Migrant by Paul Alkazraji #THEMIGRANT - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A pastor moved to Albania. 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