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Terrorist

Written by: John Updike
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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The ever-surprising John Updike's 22nd novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of 18-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam.

The son of a bohemian Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of 11. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path.

When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.

But to quote the Qur'an: Of those who plot is God the best.

©2006 John Updike (P)2006 Brilliance Audio Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Middle East Crime Iran Suspense Africa
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... life stories". He perfectly described a psychogy of a potential terrorist and an Islamist. The end was a little bit predictable, however, the rest was a beautiful novel to read. I enjoyed it very much.

A nice difference from John Uddike's "Rabbit's ...

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