When Shi'ite Muslims hijack the plane on which Colin Raleigh and his son are traveling, Colin is horrified to learn that Robbie's estranged mother, a terrorist, has targeted their plane to get her son back. By the author of Krysalis.
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From Publishers Weekly
In a new twist on the airline hijacking plot, Trenhaile ( Krysalis ) spins a story of a terrorist mother. In 1984, two years after Leila Hanif deserted them upon being revealed as an undercover operative, Colin Raleigh and his 14-year-old son, Robbie, are bound for Australia when Shia Muslims seize the aircraft and force its pilot to land in the isolated Yemen desert. The mingling of Leila's personal motivations with the Shias' political goal of exchanging the plane's passengers for six Iraqi-held Iranians make her something of a loose cannon. Also on board is a Mossad agent bent on revenge against Leila, whose first terrorist act caused his young daughter's death and his wife's subsequent suicide. The fate of all may rest on the efforts of Leila's grandmother, Celestine, long an opponent of her family's terrorist activities. Against the larger issues of parents and children and the sacrificing of one for the other remains the question of who will live and who will die in the desert. Readers may be surprised and shocked by the answer.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Oxford law professor Colin Raleigh is traveling with his 14-year-old son Robbie to Australia, where he is to be a guest lecturer. When their airplane is hijacked by Shi'ite terrorists and lands in the South Yemen desert, Colin is beside himself. Is this mere coincidence, or is his estranged wife somehow involved? As Colin struggles to maintain perspective, his story unfolds in a series of flashbacks--his love for and marriage to Leila Hanif, a Lebanese woman whose powerful family is synonymous with terrorism, and her abandonment of husband and child two years ago. When Robbie discovers his mother on board the aircraft, Colin strives to keep the shocking truth from his bewildered child. Unbeknownst to Leila, members of the Israeli Mossad are also aboard, and events rapidly develop into a quest to possess a boy and avenge an old injury. This is a taut page-turner in the best Trenhaile tradition and is recommended for most fiction collections.
- Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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