<DIV>1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by Britain&#8217;s neo-Nazi movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. It&#8217;s an environment in which he must hide his sexuality, in which every encounter is potentially deadly.<BR> <BR>2003: James is a young writer, living with his boyfriend. In search of a subject, he begins looking into the Far Right in Britain and its secret gay membership. He becomes particularly fascinated by Nicky Crane, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi movement who came out in 1992 before dying a year later of AIDS.<BR> <BR>The two narrative threads of this extraordinarily assured and ambitious first novel follow Tony through the seventies, eighties, and nineties, as the nationalist movement splinters and weakens; and James through a year in which he becomes dangerously immersed in his research. After risky flirtations with individuals on far right websites, he starts receiving threatening phone calls&#151;the first in a series of unexpected events that ultimately cause the lives of these two very different men to unforgettably intersect.<BR> <BR><I>Children of the Sun</I> is a work of great imaginative sympathy and range&#151;a novel of unblinking honesty but also of deep feeling, which illuminates the surprisingly thin line that separates aggression from tenderness.</DIV>