<p><b>''I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.''</b><br><br>He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern. When Alif comes into possession of a mysterious book entitled <i>The Thousand and One Days</i>, he discovers a door to another world - a world from a very different time, when old magic was in the ascendant and the <i>djinn </i>walked amongst us. <br><br>Thus begins an adventure that takes him through the crumbling streets of a once-beautiful city, to uncover the long-forgotten mysteries of the Unseen. Alif is about to become a fugitive. And he is about to unleash a destructive power that will change everything and everyone - starting with Alif himself...</p>