Jihad — Hank Turowski

In 1994, I lived and worked in a desert oil camp in eastern Saudi Arabia, and wrote the beginnings of The Infidels. I then returned to Arabia in 2012 to work on a gold mine site in western Arabia. Between my first and second visits, the world had changed significantly, but Arabia stayed the same. When I wrote the first book in the series "Infidels", I realized that the story was not complete. As a result, I expanded the plot and the characters, and what began as a single idea has expanded into a 4-book series. As I have come to discover, Arabia is the nexus of all that is happening in the world today. We may think we in the West are important; but Arabia controls all our futures. The Infidels and its follow-on novels, "Jihad", "Harb, and "The Angel of Mercy", tell the story of an American Engineer, Kevin O'Reilly, who must confront the dangerous realities of being a Westerner living and working in a muslim culture. "Jihad" explores the consequences of the great Sunni - Shiia conflict and it's potential to impact the rest of the world. In particular it is the story of one honor-bound American engineer working at the Saudi Oil Company who battle himself and many external and dangerous adversaries in a quest to save the world from itself.