PARIS UNDER SIEGE
Posing as a wealthy but benevolent Algerian in France, Aboud appears to
help poor North Africans in Paris suburbs. Penny, a New York reporter,
attempts to inform her friend Charles, who experienced great personal loss
in New York on 9/11, that Aboud is in reality an Islamic terrorist.
In the Sahara desert Charles discovers that Aboud is anything but
charitable. When Charles tries to find out what target in Paris
Aboud will seek to destroy by rockets or C-4 expolsives, he is imprisoned
and tortured by Aboud. However, Charles is rescued by Fatima, a Muslim
Egytian flight attendant who is enslaved by Aboud after a 2001 Islamic
riot against women in an Algerian oil town. The two flee by camel across
the desert but face dangers at the hands of Aboud's men, and Charles is
gravely wounded. When they finally reach Paris and inform Steve Hallcroft
at the American embassy of their suspicions, the four—Charles,
Fatima, Penny and Steve—form a team to thwart the destruction of
American institutions in Paris.
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Author's Notes
The heroine, Fatima, constantly insists that Aboud, the fanatical Algerian
in the book, is evil, and warns everyone she knows about his true nature.
What is the nature of evil? Personally, I believe that Albert Camus had
it right when he wrote: "The chorus in the classical tragedies (of the
Greeks) generally advises prudence. For the chorus knows that up to a
certain limit everyone is right and the person, who from blindness or
passion, oversteps this limit is heading for catastrophe, if he persists
in his desire to assert a right he thinks he alone possesses." Such
arrogance is not limited to fanatical Muslims like Aboud who believes he
alone is right, but can be found everywhere, in all faiths and in all
leaders, and in any land, and it always leads to trouble. Arrogance is
what gets individuals and nations into trouble.
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