DANNY DARREN ( Actor, Author)

   Halmat Salah  born in 1980s  .He is Kurdish from Iraq , known as Danny Darren to his friends, as   actor/  writer and Author  with a life story that most people only read about in the newspapers.  From growing up under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in his home country of Iraq to emigrating to the United Kingdom in search of a better life and a greater education.

In this challenging debut novel, Danny D conjures an evocative and compelling story of desecrated innocence. With powerfully realistic characterisation, Begotten Son ( The plan of the Italian Merchant) portrays the emotional conflict between appeasing power and learning to respect and appease one’s own desires. Danny D’s delivers a racing plot that twists and turns at breakneck speed through the winding streets of Italy and London. Danny D writes with great drama and this first work will not fail to excite.

first novel Begotten son ( The plan of the Italian Merchant.

A tragic tale of love, incest and deceit unfolds a midst the crumbling, war-torn ruins of a noble Italian city. In the confusion of nineteen forties Europe a small bud of hope blossoms. A wealthy merchant, Robert, finds his soul mate and a precious chance of happiness under the imposing darkness of Fascist rule. But his luck is not fated to last. Losing his wife in childbirth, Robert is left grief-stricken and alone to raise their child, Antonio. Wandering the through the smoking remains of his once-beautiful city, Robert sees only the destruction and despair of his own life until he comes across a startling discovery. The cries of an orphaned baby girl abandoned at a Church pierce Robert’s melancholy and he takes the infant home as his own. With a heart twisted by loss and pain he raises Rosa and Antonio with the secret desire that they would never to want for love, neither from himself nor from each other. Finally revealing to them his depraved intentions, Robert coerces the children into capitulation. As they subjugate themselves to their father’s will, the brother and sister embark on a difficult emotional struggle that takes them across the Continent in search of true happiness and a peace of their own making.