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A geopolitical thriller set in Gaza and the West Bank, told through the lens of a modern liberal Muslim.

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New Book From Robert Cook

The Mahdi is a techno-national security thriller. It presents Islam to the West from the perspective of the liberal Muslim and the liberal Jew, seen through the lens of a Bedouin-American badass. It is about Israel and the Middle East and is a tale of the liberal Jewish community and world legal opinion in a struggle against Israel’s Orthodox right wing. The role of Artificial Intelligence in warfare and education is fundamental to the story. Fiction brings a quantum computer in a cell phone and a chatbot named Emilie who vastly outshines the ChatGPT of today.

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“A great geopolitical thriller, Cook’s fourth! He manages to capture the voices of the thoughtful liberal Jew and the liberal, modern Muslim and present them as one, all within the violence and drama. Fantastic! And important.”

—Admiral Thomas Fargo, US Navy (ret), former CINCPAC, served in Bahrain as NAV CENTCOM

“A timely and exciting thriller about Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The geopolitics are deftly woven into the storyline and the weapons are other-worldly. Cook explores the edge of technical superiority, which is literally critical to Israel’s continued existence in the story and in the real world as well. Well-researched and -written, this novel will leave readers wondering whether they’re reading fiction or watching the nightly news.”

—Admiral James Loy, US Coast Guard commandant (ret), former deputy director, US Department of Homeland Security

“This gripping tale sheds the needed light on today’s white hot Middle East strife. A withering take on ancestral anger, a captivating cast, a gripping story with vivid dialogue carries us to a memorable conclusion.”

—Jack Bray, author, Alone against Hitler: Kurt von Schuschnigg’s Fight to Save Austria from the Nazis, The Tudor Wolfpack and the Roots of Irish America;
retired senior partner, King & Spalding, LLP

“Cook employs the lens of a Bedouin–American protagonist in his tale of the West Bank and Gaza before it all went bad. Great story, wonderful dialogue, fascinating view of things.”

—Tania Amochaev, author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women, native Russian/Serbian speaker, Stanford MBA, software executive, educational philanthropist

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