Tucker Malarkey

"Stronghold tells the story of Guido Rahr, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment, working to preserve the world's last pristine stronghold (habitat) for salmon in Russia's Far East--a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber in the Putin era. A high school drop-out and rebel more at home in the natural...

Set in Cairo during the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, drawing on the actual events surrounding the findings of the lost gospels at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Gemma Bastian travels from London to Cairo to bury her father. Her investigation into his last project--an attempt to recover and make public the lost Gnostic Gospels--raises troubling questions about his death.