Howard Fast is a veteran historical novelist with over seventy novels to his credit and a career spanning more than sixty years.  Now Ibooks have reissued several of his most celebrated novels for a new generation of readers to enjoy.  The story of Moses is so well-known that it might seem to be almost impossible to bring anything new to it but Fast has managed even this feat.   By focussing on Moses’ early years he fills in the gaps in the Bible story and shows us a more well-rounded character, set against the heady backdrop of a Hollywood Egypt.  Here is the tale of his early years as a spoiled young princeling but growing to maturity seeing how ground down the Hebrew slaves are, building for their masters and being treated as lesser beings.  Moses then becomes sensible that he is an outsider in the court and sees the decadence and evil behind the glittering façade – and vows to do something about it.  This is a story that addresses topics both modern and as old as the human race and thus has great appeal but there is also time to see Moses the man as he falls in love, fights against the bowmen of Kush and lives amid the trappings of privilege on one side and the dust of slavery on the other.  A masterly tale by a fine writer – I look forward to seeing more of Fast’s books reissued.

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