![]() It is a novel that is more than the sum of its parts, more than its plot: a mystery centered on a delusional, religious-police detective investigating. It is a snapshot album of Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s, when contemporary jihadism sprouted in the sands of the Kingdom. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. SAND explores the sexual and religious roots of jihadist terrorism. SAND describes a place where misogyny, predatory sexual opportunism, heterosexual and homosexual, religious terrorism, rape, stoning, and greed are the norm. ![]() Neither Saudis nor their highly-paid foreign workers - Americans, British, Canadian, Filipino, Pakistani, and others - are spared. ![]() ![]() Written by an American journalist who covered the Middle East at the time, SAND is a realistic story of characters, events, and an ideology so extreme that its telling is at times surreal. Graphic descriptions expose the sexual mania that motivates self-justified intolerance and violence resulting from a repressive society. It is a novel that is more than the sum of its parts, more than its plot: a mystery centered on a delusional, religious-police detective investigating trouble at a five-star hotel in Riyadh. SAND explores the sexual and religious roots of jihadist terrorism. ![]()
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