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A Beirut Heart
In 1969, Cathy Sultan fulfills her dream of living abroad, moving with her Lebanese husband and two infants to Beirut—cosmopolitan, beautiful, and dangerously seductive. She comes to love the city like a dysfunctional lover, even as civil war erupts in 1975. Using cooking as calm amid chaos, she fights to keep home life comforting and hospitable while bullets strike her kitchen and bombs shatter the city. A Beirut Heart is her gripping story of preserving family and humanity in war.
There is nothing like an intelligent woman, spouse and mother of small children, to carry one into the midst of war, with its horrors as well as its capacity for soul-building,,, Her narrative enfleshes our disjointed news of the Middle East.
—David Burrell, CSC, Hesburgh Professor in Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame and Director, Tantar Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem -
A Firm State of Heart
In Bob Gilbert’s A Firm State of Heart, Minneapolis writer Samuel Meckler tries to compose a long poem that can rise above the chaos of the Trump years. Paying bills as a waiter at an upscale Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant between the White House and the Capitol, he becomes an eyewitness to politics through diners ranging from lawmakers to diplomats and media stars. His nights move between salons, trap houses, and Capitol Hill bars, as an affair unfolds amid COVID, recession, and George Floyd’s death—an idealist searching for a new American narrative.
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An Ambassador to Syria
An Ambassador to Syria plunges into the shadowy rise of ISIS and the Syrian conflict, continuing Sultan’s The Syrian and Damascus Street. New ambassador Robert Jenkins arrives in Damascus with a covert mission: spark civil unrest and engineer regime change. As Homs erupts in bloodshed, the novel asks whether Bashar Assad is brutal dictator, nationalist defender—or both—in a land where multiple truths collide.
Characters that feel like they live in the real world.
—Jack Rice, radio host & ex-CIA officer -
Beneath the Rock
Tommy Birk’s novel captures how veterans leave war behind, yet carry it home—and how that pain seeps into the people who love them. WWII foes Ernie and Gunny Balbach hide out at Piankashaw Rock with Ernie’s son Timmy, a broken Vietnam vet. Sustained by devoted women, Timmy’s love for conflicted Maria, and guided by a mystic priest with secrets, they confront the evil haunting them to break history’s vicious cycle and find redemption.
I wish I could give more than five stars
—Adam, verified review on Amazon -
Damascus Street
In Damascus Street, the sequel to The Syrian, Middle East expert Cathy Sultan crafts a tense web of intrigue in post–civil war Lebanon. Idealistic American physician Andrew Sullivan becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly spy game, drawn into a maze of deception by a cast of shadowy players. When his fiancée, Nadia Khoury, is kidnapped by Syria’s former intelligence chief, Andrew fights to rescue her in a thriller of passion, survival, and lost innocence.
heartbreaking…
—Rick Polad, author of the Spencer Manning Mystery series -
Omar’s Choice
Omar’s Choice continues Cathy Sultan’s thriller series into the shadowy rise of ISIS. Omar, now an ISIS member, and John, a CIA operative, ignite a nightmare across Syria. Against a landscape of perpetual war, the novel exposes the brutal consequences—present and future—of Western intervention and “forever wars” in the Middle East.
This book is a rare accomplishment. Bravo!
—Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer -
Statera
MAY YOU BLAZE OR BURN
To restore the balance of the world, every twelve years humans are chosen for the Equilibrium. Nothing is known about the Ceremony. Except one ultimatum.
No one ever returns.
When the totalitarian state known as FORTE forces Aurora and Lukas to participate, they expect to die for the cause. But inside the Equilibrium, they’ll discover that some fates are worse than death.
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The Syrian
Set during the 2006 Israeli–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, The Syrian is a tale of passion and betrayal. Nadia, after thirteen years, declares her “disappeared” husband dead to marry American physician Andrew Sullivan. On the eve of her engagement, journalist friend Sonia claims the husband may be alive in a Syrian prison. Jealous and manipulative, Sonia enlists Syria’s secret police chief, unleashing violent twists as Nadia races to uncover the truth.
a master trifecta of political thriller, historical fiction, and romance.
—Antonia Felix, New York Times bestselling author -
Ukrainian Nights
Ukrainian Nights is a gritty noir that drives its protagonist to the edge of obsession. Hunter, a young New York Times journalist, heads to post-Soviet Kyiv to investigate sex trafficking and money laundering. Not a tough guy, he falls hard for Alina—the mistress of Karasov, Ukraine’s most powerful mob boss—and refuses to let her go. Their doomed romance unfolds amid brutal violence in Kyiv and New York, fueled by geopolitics, drug money, human trafficking, crooked banking, and the spoils of oil and gas—leaving readers unsure who’s right or wrong.
One page in, I couldn’t stop reading
—John Wirth, Executive Producer/Showrunner of Hell on Wheels and The Sarah Connor Chronicles -
Zero God
A secretive Washington, DC foundation led by a charismatic charlatan pursues an apocalyptic future rooted in extremist religion. To accelerate its agenda, it plants a “Manchurian candidate” in politics—unaware of his dark past tied to Abu Ghraib’s rape culture. An emotionally wounded small-town lawyer becomes the last barrier to national catastrophe.
Birk’s passion pushes the boundaries of the thriller-suspense genre to produce a powerful, uniquely styled novel.
—Rick Polad, author of the Spencer Manning Mystery Series
