Thank You for Supporting Beirut Extraction — Please Leave a Review First of all, thank you to everyone who has purchased Beirut Extraction. Your support genuinely means a great deal. Seeing readers engage with a story that began as a blank page is both humbling and rewarding. As an independent author, reader feedback plays a […]
Best Thriller Books Review It’s a pleasure to read a spy thriller that highlights the grim and dangerous realities of the tradecraft with the no-nonsense demeanor of a well-informed and experienced scribe. When a senior Lebanese intelligence officer in Beirut looks for an out, British intelligence makes it their directive to get the man out, […]
What Early Readers Are Saying About Beirut Extraction Early Reader Reactions to Beirut Extraction With publication day approaching, I’ve started reflecting on the journey that brought Beirut Extraction to life. Writing the novel involved months of research, countless rewrites, and many late nights refining dialogue and tightening the tension. Yet every author eventually faces the […]
Where to Order Beirut Extraction There are cities that remember everything. Beirut is one of them. It remembers the shelling, the bargains struck in shuttered rooms, the men who arrived with clean hands and left with them less so. It remembers the ships that came at dusk and slipped away before dawn. And now, if […]
Character Spotlight: Emma — The Agent Who Knows Too Much Meet Emma: The Watcher in Beirut Extraction In the first entry of this character series, we meet one of the Watchers: Emma. Every intelligence operation has someone who sees more than they are meant to. A careful observer notices the small missteps, the inconvenient truths, […]
How Real World Politics Inspired Beirut Extraction The Real-World Politics Behind Beirut Extraction When I began writing Beirut Extraction, I did not intend to mirror the nightly news. However, writing a spy novel set in today’s Middle East inevitably draws from reality. Shifting borders, uneasy alliances, and quiet agreements made behind closed doors all shape […]
Why I Set My Novel in Beirut When people hear I’ve set my debut spy thriller, Beirut Extraction, in Lebanon’s capital, the reactions tend to fall into two camps. Some lean in with interest—“Of course, Beirut, perfect!” Others frown, puzzled, as though I’ve chosen a stage too obscure or dangerous for fiction. The truth is […]
Why Choose Beirut as the Location? When people hear I’ve set my debut spy thriller, Beirut Extraction, in Lebanon’s capital, the reactions tend to fall into two camps. Some lean in with interest—“Of course, Beirut, perfect!” Others frown, puzzled, as though I’ve chosen a stage too obscure or dangerous for fiction. The truth is that […]
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