Description
The action sweeps through Miami, New York, Beirut, Bahrain, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.Characters act out dramas as old as the human family; man and woman, mother and child.Kidnapping, jealousy, revenge, stealth and violent behavior engulf them all. Ali was four when her Cuban-American mother, Maggie, and her Lebanese father, Joe Zayyat were divorced in Miami. Maggie remarried.Joe took Ali to Lebanon to meet his family while Maggie went on her honeymoon.Joe told his daughter that her mother didn�t want her anymore.He left her in Lebanon to be put in boarding school until he could convince Maggie to leave her new husband and remarry him.Maggie journeyed alone to Lebanon to retrieve her daughter.Ali�s hair was cut short, she was taking Valium and thought her mother didn�t love her.Maggie succeeded in retrieving Ali, but despicable Joe Zayyat, kidnapped her again.Maggie and Lee did some detective work and learned that Joe and Ali were in the Emirate of Bahrain.They traveled there and stole her back.Lawyers and judges took control.Catholic Joe, converted to Islam and won custody in the Sharia court.Overcoming a betrayal by the U.S. Embassy staff and a cultural environment hostile toward women�s issues, Maggie and Lee escaped Bahrain. They traveled through the Middle East without passports and faced stern police and Arabic immigration officials.They risked everything as they struggled to bring Ali home to America.
