But those I hunt call me by an Arabic name Al Shabah. And it was many years ago, a different life than the one that was thrust upon me when I was just ten. The son of a mechanic, a real mechanic, unlike me. I was born in a small town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. If you are thinking that is too small of a niche market, and that business is slow, you will be wrong. A tale of obsession and revenge, in this first book of the Al Shabah Assassin Series, Paul ultimately finds himself on the trail of a childhood nemesis who. I only kill terrorists, and I never play politics. I don’t kill rapists, serial killers, gangsters, or politicians, even if they deserve it. I pick my targets and only take on the assignment after careful consideration. But I don’t work for any government or agency. I am a freelancer, an independent assassin. They don’t actually do it, but I feel and sense it. In fact, I am the kind of man people would spit on behind his back. Nobody sits beside me on a crowded bus, or asks to share my table in a busy food court. Without knowing why, perhaps just the scent of death that surrounds me, women pull their young ones closer to them when I walk by. The story follows “Paul” from his childhood in the Bekaa Valley to adulthood when he is recruited and trained as a killer by both Israel’s Mossad and the CIA. The Ghost: An Assassin’s Story, is based on the true story of the author’s experiences growing up in Lebanon during that country’s bloody civil war, as well as his time as a counter-terrorist operative.
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