The Syria Quartet is a searing, deeply informed thriller series that plunges readers into the moral chaos of the modern Middle East. Set against the unraveling of Syria, the novels expose the brutal intersection of Western intervention, intelligence operations, sectarian violence, and personal loss. Through diplomats, doctors, journalists, spies, and ordinary civilians caught in extraordinary circumstances, the series confronts the human cost of regime change, proxy war, and geopolitical arrogance. Nothing is clean, no motive is pure, and survival often demands impossible compromises. Written with rare regional insight and emotional force, The Syria Quartet refuses easy villains or comforting answers, offering instead a relentless portrait of a nation—and a world—where truth is contested, loyalty is dangerous, and innocence is the first casualty of power.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
