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First American edition. |
| Description |
460 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
A captivating thriller that reveals a family's intergenerational secrets, a nation's deepest fears, and an underground world of politics, religion, and society. Beirut at dawn. A bus leaves the Charles Helou station en route to Damascus. Seven passengers are on board, one of whom is a prominent Lebanese politician. Before crossing the border, the bus is accosted and derailed. All seven passengers are gunned down. A botanist studying a rare occurrence of acacias nearby witnesses the horror. While the nation around him plunges into conspiracy theories and chaos, the botanist realizes he holds the only clue to the mystery: his injured Acacia. This sends him on a quest for answers, through a minefield of national fears and family secrets, deep into a private underworld. |
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Botanists -- Fiction.
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Assassination -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Secrecy -- Fiction.
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Acacia -- Fiction.
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Lebanon -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Political fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Suspense fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781623719920 (softcover) |
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1623719925 (softcover) |
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