Captives of Minara — Eric Wright

In Captives of Minara;
-A 4500-year-old lost city is excavated,
-A journalist reluctantly returns to the scene of a childhood trauma,
-A criminal mastermind kidnaps women and children consigning them to a life of slavery.

Josh Radley travels to Pakistan to write about archaeological discoveries that may unravel a mystery concerning the Indus civilization.
While there he struggles to restore intimacy to his marriage and put to rest nightmares reaching back to his childhood as a missionary kid. Josh, along with his daughter Janice and wife, Stephanie, expect heat and dust but are unprepared to deal with sabotage, theft, kidnapping, and murder.

Eric E. Wright spent 16 years in Pakistan where he learned to speak the Urdu language and developed an appreciation for the Pakistani culture.