Product Description: "Swift, hard-boiled novel...Shadowy zealots exist everywhere, whether in conference rooms or interrogation rooms or--most often--in rooms that can serve as both."--New York Times Book Review"Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption...read more

A world-weary young American finds himself on a quest that thrusts him across three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam.

Sent to New York to investigate rumors of a terrorist attack, Iranian agent Sami Amir is set up once he arrives, duped into falling in love with a beautiful woman, and soon, the true nature of his mission is revealed. A first novel. Reprint.