Soho Press - The Samaritan's Secret by Matt Benyon Rees

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Omar Yussef investigates the murder of a member of a tiny ancient religious community in Nablus.

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February 2009| Fiction/Mystery
$24 Paperback
ISBN:978-1-56947-545-4

To take a virtual tour of Nablus and the locations in Matt Beynon Rees's The Samaritan's Secret, click here.

On the Omar Yussef series:
“Astonishing.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“Omar’s probe of a West Bank ruled by political intrigue, religious hatred, and militia thugs lets ex-Time Jerusalem bureau chief Rees make the Mideast conflict personal.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Outstanding.”
—Library Journal (starred)

“An evocative, compassionate tale.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[Rees] writes with great power, style, and emotion.”
—Booklist (starred)

“Readable and literate, and offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life today.”
—Washington Post

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A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community who controlled hundreds of millions of dollars of government money has been murdered. Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must find the missing money before all aid to the Palestinians is cut off.

Matt Beynon Rees was born in South Wales. He covered the Middle East as a journalist for over a decade and was Time magazine’s Jerusalem bureau chief for 2000 to 2006. He is the author of the nonfiction work Cain’s Field: Faith, Fratricide and Fear in the Middle East and three mysteries in the Omar Yussef series. The first book in the series, The Collaborator of Bethlehem, won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger.