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Genre:Political thriller, with strong anti-war undertones. The novel starts in the period preceeding the current Iraq War, when the USA and Britain were fabricatibf evidence to justify an invasion into Iraq. The main character Rafe Howard, is of mixed English/Palestinian origin. he works for an intelligence gathering organisation, Crawford where he heads the Arab desk. His girl frienf, Melissa Lewis, works as a secretary in Downing Street. They have known each other for five years and have a casulj but warm relationship. The first chapter, in which Rafe's mother is killed by a stray Israeli missile, is really the begining of his transformation into a potential suicide bomber. The next few chapters are the lead uo to the invasion, with the White House manipulation the UN, supported by a compliant Britain. Rafe goes down the slippery slope by getting involved with the Egyptian section of Al Qaeda. This takes him to Spain and South Africa as he plots to punish the British government. In thelast section of the book we see how rafe is putting his plan into operation, but it has been detected by MI5. The hunt and the subsequent events lead to the climactic finale. Author John Devere-Loots  |source=ArticleWizard|date=August 2011}}

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