In Arabia: Terrorism and Defiance

In Arabia: Terrorism and Defiance is a thrilling new novel of violence, civil war, terrorism, and retribution, told with the driving pace, rich characters, and excitement of the best spy novels.By 1983, Lebanon had endured ten years of civil war. To stem the violence, America sent a large force of US Marines to Beirut on a peacekeeping mission. They faced determined resistance.Hezbollah, a then-obscure militia, attacked the Marine barracks with an immensely powerful truck bomb, utterly destroying the block-long building and killing hundreds. At almost the same moment, the militia murdered a beloved Lebanese surgeon on the streets of the city and kidnapped his companion, David Klein, Director of the American University of Beirut Hospital.In response to the terrorist bombing, America and its allies withdrew from Lebanon and lost interest in the fate of the American hostage.Five friends of Director Klein witnessed these events. Two were young Arab women, both physicians, a Lebanese and a Palestinian. Three were Americans, childhood friends of Klein, and, like him, expats working in the Middle East.Klein’s friends refused to abandon him, and, driven by a sense of duty, justice, and love, they joined forces to find and free him. Powerful forces opposed them—the labyrinth of Arab politics, official corruption, bureaucratic fiefdoms, and the long history of tribal loyalties.In Arabia: Terrorism and Defiance tells the story of their search for Klein, which ends in a violent confrontation in a village of great antiquity in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Read more