Welcome:

Hi!  I'm Les Lester, an author committed to writing stories that are at once entertaining and thought provoking.  I wrote my novel, "The Awakening of Khufu," as an addition to the emerging stories about Black history that are continuing to come forth on the modern literature  landscape. 

In the book, James Hannibal III, an African-American geneticist, realizes he can bring the ancient pharaoh Khufu to the twenty-first century via DNA sequencing. Upon his arrival, Khufu thinks he is in Duat, the Egyptian Heaven. He soon learns, however, that he has been transposed some 4,500 years into the future. The

resulting maelstrom surrounding Khufu's return reorders modern society's assumptions on race in the pre-Hellenistic world and, subsequently, our accompanying views today.