Graham Hurley’s latest novel is set amid the emotional – and actual – Israel-Palestine conflict
Reviewed by Dave Phillips
NAKBA is Hickathrift’s second novel from renowned thriller writer Graham Hurley – and it will keep you guessing at every turn, while taking you on an emotional rollercoaster.
I don’t want to spoil your read, but let’s just say it involves love, hate, death, war, terrorism, regret, suspense, sex, deception, and redemption.
There are also some disturbing truths.
It’s brilliant – the sort of book that makes me proud to be a publisher.
Author Graham Hurley spent three summers as a student working on a kibbutz in northern Israel. Nearly fifty years later, he and his wife, Lin, returned to Greater Israel and the West Bank. What they found, and the conversations they shared, sparked this book.
Without giving too much away, this is the plot . . .
Charlie McGuigan is a young reporter. His years in Israel have radicalised him. Wearing a suicide vest, he’s spending his last day on earth before blowing up a leading UK politician whom he part-blames for the atrocities he’s witnessed.
Steve Fairfax is a Detective Inspector with the Counter Terrorist Command, charged with making sense of what follows.
While Sapir Dahan is an Israeli activist who, it turns out, holds the key to the tangle of events that is Nakba.
Three voices. One festering problem that has already taken countless lives. And Charlie McGuigan’s bid to change the course of history.
Nakba. What happens when catastrophe breeds despair.
Nakba is the sort of book that may well change your mind. Read it. You won’t regret it.
Like all Hickathrift books, Nakba is available in paperback, hardback and Kindle e-book formats, just a click away on Amazon.
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