ARAB

Imagine yourself a young man living in Cairo, Egypt. You’re an airplane mechanic with a pilot’s license, an ordinary guy not affiliated with any political causes or terrorist organizations, just a guy trying to get ahead. While with your girlfriend in a café, you’re picked up by two thugs, taken to the hills of Mokattam and tortured. You escape and learn that a major subversive group, the Egyptian police, and the American CIA are trying to find you.

Marine Lieutenant Colonel Nick Palermo is brought to Cairo from the war zone and, because he has lived in Cairo and speaks Arabic fluently, is told by the Special Agent of the CIA to bring you in for questioning, hinting that releasing you afterwards might be a problem.

After fighting off the secret Egyptian police and the subversive thugs, Nick finds you and learns that complying with the CIA demands is not as simple as he had expected.

ARAB is an intelligent, riveting drama by Jim Ingraham whom Jan Burke called “a master craftsman.”