Gales of Alexandria

<p>In 2014 Alexandria Egypt history professor Omar El-Mohammedi is shattered when his once-promising son Nasser returns-not alive but wrapped in silence and unanswered questions.</p><p></p><p>Was Nasser truly a terrorist radicalized by faith or a casualty of a fractured world that rarely seeks to understand? With no time to mourn CIA agent Matt demands that Omar decode his son's journal possibly the only way to stop a looming terrorist attack. As he unravels its brutal passages Omar confronts unforgiving family revelations and his failings as a father.</p><p></p><p>Amid the aftermath of 9/11 the ensuing wars and the Arab Spring <em>The Gales of Alexandria</em> follows those left behind. His sister turns to faith his fiancée to activism and his best friends who left for a new life in America are caught in shifting tides. Meanwhile Matt torn between duty and doubt and Risa a Jewish woman in a failing marriage to Nasser's best friend find themselves drawn into Nasser's fate.</p><p></p><p><em>The Gales of Alexandria</em> explores politics faith and family-a story rooted in culture and history unfolding with the pulse of a thriller. Why do we stray from our ideals? Can reconciliation emerge from loss or are some wounds too deep to heal?</p>