Empire of Lies

Empire of Lies is a 2008 thriller novel written by screenwriter and Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan. The book takes its title from a quote often attributed to George Orwell, "Truth is treason in an empire of lies." The novel begins with a quote from Whittaker Chambers - "At issue...was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western Civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it." The book is a thriller in which the protagonist, a politically conservative Christian, believes that he has discovered an Islamist terrorist plot but that it being concealed by left-wing and politically-correct media.