Özgür Mumcu

Özgür Mumcu

A rich novel weaving real historical events with murders and mysteries.

Özgür Mumcu is a Turkish author, free speech activist and journalist working for the Cumhuriyet newspaper in Turkey. In 2016 he accepted a Right Livelihood award on the newspaper’s behalf for it’s ‘fearless investigative journalism and commitment to freedom of expression in the face of oppression, censorship, imprisonment and death threats’.

Özgür’s debut, The Peace Machine is set in 1914 as the world stands on the brink of yet another war. But what if conflict was avoidable? What if a machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to influence minds? And what if such a machine could put an end to violence forever? The search for the answer to these questions will lead protagonist Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from Istanbul to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out.

Moving at a rattling pace, when everyone is busy talking about war The Peace Machine focuses on peace.