by Mark A. Gabriel

Former Lecturer of Islamic History at Al-Azhar University

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Mustafa is a good Muslim; in fact, he is nearly perfect. He memorized the Quran by age 12. He graduated from Al-Azhar with a doctorate in Islamic History and Culture. He is one of the youngest lecturers in university history. And he just finished his first hajj.

But in reality he is on the edge of abandoning his faith and no one knows it. He is tormented by the thought that a family secret from his childhood may be corrupting his soul.

Little does he know he will find the answers to his questions in a coffee shop in Mecca. There he meets a man with a passion for iced lattes who looks like a desert tribesman but speaks like an Islamic scholar.

Hoping to absorb the charismatic strangers unapologetic faith, Mustafa invites him to be a guest in his family's home. Mustafa soon realizes that this tribesman has secrets of his own. What does he carry in his rough brown bag? Who does he talk with late at night? And how does he know so much about Mustafa?

When the stranger reveals his identity, Mustafa makes a decision that could cost him his life.

Author Biography:

A former lecturer at Al-Azhar University, Mark A. Gabriel is a widely-sourced expert on Islamic teaching and the Middle East. He is the author of several best-selling books about Islam including Islam and Terrorism. For the protection of his relatives, Dr. Gabriel changed his Muslim name to a Western name.

• How Islam was influenced by the warlike Arabian culture of the 7th century
• Atrocities committed by Muhammad in the name of Allah
• The story of the Egyptian student who came to study education in America and went on to write the first handbook of terrorism in the twentieth century
• The prominence of jihad (war against infidels) in Islamic theology
• How Egyptian fundamentalists murdered and robbed Christians to raise funds for terrorism
• The difference between a moderate Muslim and a fundamentalist Muslim