The novel portrays a time when fascism spread across Europe and Asia. Its relevance to our time is obvious. A powerful story of wartime, of love, of friendship and unthinkable bravery—about the degree of courage it takes to fight the evil of fascism.

Arthur Rosen, a young man living in Brooklyn in 1936, kills a Nazi brownshirt in self-defense and must flee the country.

The Spanish Republic is attacked by an army led by Francisco Franco, whose goal is to destroy the Republic and establish a right-wing dictatorship. He is supported by the aristocracy and the Catholic Church, and receives arms and troops from Germany and Italy. 40,000 young men and women from around the world drop their lives and travel to Spain to stop the spread of fascism. Arthur joins them and becomes a soldier in the International Brigades.

A beautiful Spanish woman is assigned to photograph the growing civil war in Madrid—to show the world the atrocities being committed by the invading army. A young woman from a small village, a victim of those atrocities, makes her way to Madrid to join the fight.

The first novel in English fully set in the Spanish Civil War since Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, Pandaemonium Moon richly recounts Franco’s siege of Madrid, where the lives of these three individuals fatefully come together. Now they must face the long, bitter battles that ensue. The boy from New York transforms from an unfocused fugitive into a disillusioned war hero, in love with a woman stronger than he is.