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FOURTH ASSASSIN: Compared to Graham Greene and John Le Carre, and called “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine” by the French magazine L’Express, Matt Benyon Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. The former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time magazine and a Middle East reporter for Newsweek, Rees introduced the first Palestinian crime series and his protagonist Omar Yussef with his novel, The Collaborator of Bethlehem, which won the CWA New Blood Dagger Award. The Bethlehem Murders and The Samaritan’s Secret, two more Palestinian set mysteries, soon followed. Now Omar Yussef crosses the Atlantic to unravel his most personal case yet in THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, the fourth novel in Rees’s critically acclaimed series. When Yussef travels to New York for a UN conference, he is eager to visit his youngest son, Ala, who lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a large Palestinian community. When he arrives at Ala’s apartment, he finds a roommate’s beheaded body in one of the beds. Ala refuses to give an alibi and is arrested. Anxious to prove his son’s innocence, Yussef sets out to investigate. The murderer has left clues that refer to the Assassins, a medieval Shiite sect. When they were teenagers, Ala and his roommates had a club by that name. What is the connection? As Yussef delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy of international proportions. National publicity out of Jerusalem and New York. |
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