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About the author
N.T. McQueen is an avid writer and dedicated college lecturer. With a master’s degree in fiction from California State University,
Sacramento, McQueen has brought unique perspectives on human nature to readers in his captivating novels Never Hide from the Devil (Cennan, 2026), The Cry of Dry Bones (2021), and Between Lions and Lambs (2011). His writing has been featured in North American
Review, Stonecoast Review, Entropy, Sunlight Press, Atticus Review, Dappled Things, Grief Digest Magazine, and Foreword Magazine.
He lives in California with his wife and daughters and enjoys fi shing, traveling, and a tasty cup of coffee.
Never Hide from the Devil
N.T. McQueen
Through the eyes of a young boy, McQueen craft s a devastating and unforgettable portrait of the 1915 Defense of Van - a story of resilience against impossible odds that delivers the history of the Armenian Genocide to a new
generation.
Inspired by a true story of resistance during the Armenian Genocide, this stirring coming-of-age novel is a parable of courage and impossible choices in the midst of unimaginable horror.
The government wants them dead.
Fourteen-year-old Suren Simonian, an Armenian, lives as most boys his age do in the city of Van, eastern Anatolia. He goes to school, gawks at boys’ fistfights, and does his best to avoid the Turkish gendarmes. Most days he spends with his Turkish best friend, Hamza. But in spring 1915, rumors spread through Van of Turkish massacres of Armenian villages.
Now Turkish troops have massed outside Van with one goal—to exterminate the city’s Armenians.
As Suren struggles to understand what it means to be a man, he knows one thing for sure:
When everything you’ve known and loved is at stake, the only answer is to fi ght back. You can
never hide from the devil.