Pages
157
Year
2017
Language
English

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A PI heads from DC to Saudi Arabia to save the life of a client targeted by a hit man. Nothing will stop the beautiful Fawzia Totah and her lover, US Army colonel Lyman Tyler, from boarding a plane for the Middle East to make their pilgrimage to Mecca. So Fawzia hires Washington PI Chester Drum to serve as bodyguard until she's safely out of the country. But Lyman's wealthy mother, Davisa, doesn't want Fawzia to go anywhere safely. The violently bigoted, socially connected woman comes from old Virginia money, and she's not about to let this former dancer from Jordan risk her precious Southern reputation. Not only is her son prepared to convert to Islam for the woman he loves, he's also already married. When Davisa hires a hit man to track down Fawzia and take her out, Drum has no choice but to follow. However, Davisa's motives aren't as simple as they first seem-and the road to Mecca has a sudden turn no one will see coming.

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"A masterpiece of atmosphere, plot, and genuine anxiety."
Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Peridition, on Violence Is My Business
"Marlowe's buoyant skill and credibility lie in the way he has put breath into his characters."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Very few writers of the tough private-eye story can tell it more accurately than Mr. Marlowe, or with such taut understatement of violence and sex."
The New York Times Book Review

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