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The Reykvavik Assignment
What you need to know before your trail
Yael Azoulay works for the United Nations as a senior covert negotiator for Secretary General, Fareed Hussein. She is given the task of arranging a meeting, a secret one at that, between the American president and their Iranian counterpart which will take place at the Reykjavik Summit.
There are many people however who do not want such talks to take place and will go to extreme lengths to ensure that they don’t. These talks are the lynchpin of the security at the event, of the countries involved and at the centre of Middle East security as a whole.
One small pebble causes many ripples in a pond…
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The World Stage
There are so many events and references in this book to world events both current and recent that it’s quite shocking the journey it takes you on and the sense of foreboding it gives. The female President of the United States, Renee Freshwater wants to talk with the female Iranian president Kermanzade. Many people think that two women talking might be better than two men, but these are no ordinary women and certainly no ordinary chat.
The UN
World politics, international relations and the real power of money are the major landscapes in this thriller. The work of the UN and the behind the scenes insights are particuarly exciting. Imagine them if you ever go on the UN tour and imagine what is going on behind closed doors!
Syria and the Middle East
Events in Syria are at the forefront of this novel. With the book opening in Northern Syrian and news of a character being kidnapped, the torture and horror of the reality there is all too real. “A line of severed heads started back at him, each mounted on a pole”
The Middle East situation is detailed and complex and events across Syria, Istanbul and Iraq soon spiral out of control as the players on the world stage – oligarchs, politicians and those in the shadows come face to face.
Booktrailer Review
Clare: @thebooktrailer
A thriller with a difference. There are more thrills and spills in this that I first thought. The beginning is like being in the boxing ring with the characters punching you from all sides – more people come into the ring, the action pulls its own punches and I started to wonder if I would ever be able to get up. But I carried on and the story came into its own. There’s more to this story than meets the eye as days after finishing it, I’m still thinking about some of the incidents in the story – how it seems to almost be an allegorical tale of what is going on in the world today. What really does go on in the corridors of power. Scary when you think about it. Scarier still when you realise that the author has some experience of the events in the book having been a reporter of political matters for some years. He writes for the Economist amongst others so you know that this is going to be as real as they come. And that’s the most chilling thought of all.
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