The Collaborator of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery - Couverture souple

Beynon Rees, Matt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0618959653 ISBN 13 : 9780618959655

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his former pupil, who he knows is innocent. As he struggles to save George, Omar Yussef is drawn into a complex plot where it is impossible to tell friend from enemy.

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Praise for The Collaborator of Bethlehem

Winner of the CWA John Creasey Dagger

"All it takes is one good man—a detective, of course—to humanize events that confound understanding . . . An astonishing first novel . . . Setting a mystery in the epicenter of a war zone challenges the genre conventions, but it doesn’t change the rules. In fact, it clarifies the role of the detective as the voice of reason, crying to be heard above the cacophony of gun-barrel politics."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Rees tells this grim story with skill, specificity and richly detailed descriptions of people and places.”
—The Washington Post

“Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity.”
—David Baldacci

“A beautifully written story. I have walked the streets of Bethlehem with Omar Yussef, smelled the dust and the fear, tasted his food, shared his anger and his hope. His decency is a light in the gloom. I shall not forget him.”
—Anne Perry

“The Collaborator of Bethlehem is the best—and the rarest—sort of mystery: exciting and compelling, but it is also a deeply moving story that will, for many readers, shed much needed light on the conditions in the Palestinian territories. Matt Beynon Rees’s ability to blend the political and the emotional is reminiscent of Graham Greene.”
—David Liss, author of The Day of Atonement

“Omar Yussef has everything I admire in a detective: humility, humanity, a great faith in the power of knowledge and a few bad habits too!”
—Barbara Nadel, author of The Ottoman Cage

Biographie de l'auteur

Matt Rees is the author of the Omar Yussef Mysteries, a series
of crime novels about a Palestinian sleuth from the West Bank town of
Bethlehem. As a journalist, Rees has covered the Middle East since 1996,
with the vast majority of that time spent amongst Palestinians and
Israelis. He was Time Magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief from June 2000
until January 2006, and previously was Middle East correspondent for The
Scotsman and Newsweek. He was born in Newport, Wales, in 1967 and studied
at Wadham College, Oxford University, and the University of Maryland. Rees
wrote award-winning stories about the violence of the Aqsa intifada for
Time. Matt Rees published a nonfiction account of the divisions within
Israeli and Palestinian societies called "Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide,
and Fear in the Middle East" in 2004 with Free Press, an imprint of Simon &
Schuster. His first detective novel, "The Collaborator of Bethlehem", was
published in the U.S. in February 2007 by Soho Press and, as "The Bethlehem
Murders", by Atlantic Books in the UK. A series of novels about Palestinian
sleuth Omar Yussef has been sold to leading publishers in the UK, the US,
France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, Israel, Portugal, Denmark, Holland,
Norway, and Brazil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0618959653
• ISBN 13: 9780618959655
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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