Murder on Mount Moses

Kirjan Murder on Mount Moses (2017) on kirjoittanut Ayman Fawzy Hussein. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Independently Published. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 278 sivua ja se on nidottu.

In 1986 in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, a young Egyptian, army recruit opens the fire of his AK-47 on a group of Israeli tourists, as they basked in the warmth of in a sun-drenched beach, killing and wounding a number of men, women, and children. Overnight, Egyptian mass media turned the killer soldier into a folk hero, as he sat in an Egyptian military prison awaiting trial. The Mubarak administration condemned the grizzly attack and proceeded to prepare for the soldier's court-martial. The opposition parties, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction canonizing the killer-soldier, and calling for his immediate release. All of Egypt ignited in turmoil. But less than a month after the incident, the soldier turned up dead in his cell, having hanged himself from the iron bars of his cell. The Egyptian government called the dead soldier a paranoid psychopath, who got what he deserved, while the opposition parties proclaimed him a martyr, sacrificed by the authorities to placate the Israelis. Bill Thomas, an American reporter, stationed in Egypt at the time, becomes obsessed with the story. He goes on a crusade to find out the truth about the dead killer-soldier. What he finds out at the end of his quest leaves him flabbergasted.