In the wake of the bombing of the World Trade Center, New York has become ground zero for an intricate web of betrayals and double crosses in the shadowy world of Islamic radicalism. Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn and enters a world of militants and spies.
In the wake of the World Trade Centre bombing of 1993, Samir Amir arrives
in Brooklyn via Iran, and into a world of militants, arms suppliers, and
spies. An operative from a hidden branch of the Iranian counter-intelligence
apparatus, Sami is sent to the States to investigate rumours of terrorist
plots that are to culminate around Christmas and New Year. But before long,
Sami intuits that he has been set up; and at the same time he falls in
love with Ellena, a poet and part-time stripper. 'An original, fast-paced
spy thriller. . . now being hailed as one of the hottest fictional arrivals
of the season. Abdoh is certainly a writer to watch.' The Times
