The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mysteries) - Softcover

Matt Beynon Rees

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618959653 ISBN 13: 9780618959655

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

Omar Yussef, a history teacher at a UN school in the West Bank, manages to stay away from all the violence surrounding him, until a former pupil, George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis, is charged with murder, and Omar, unable to believe in his guilt, decides to investigate the case for himself. A first novel. Reprint.

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About the Author

Matt Rees is the author of the Omar Yussef Mysteries, a series
of crime novels about a Palestinian sleuth from the West Bank town of
Bethlehem. As a journalist, Rees has covered the Middle East since 1996,
with the vast majority of that time spent amongst Palestinians and
Israelis. He was Time Magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief from June 2000
until January 2006, and previously was Middle East correspondent for The
Scotsman and Newsweek. He was born in Newport, Wales, in 1967 and studied
at Wadham College, Oxford University, and the University of Maryland. Rees
wrote award-winning stories about the violence of the Aqsa intifada for
Time. Matt Rees published a nonfiction account of the divisions within
Israeli and Palestinian societies called "Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide,
and Fear in the Middle East" in 2004 with Free Press, an imprint of Simon &
Schuster. His first detective novel, "The Collaborator of Bethlehem", was
published in the U.S. in February 2007 by Soho Press and, as "The Bethlehem
Murders", by Atlantic Books in the UK. A series of novels about Palestinian
sleuth Omar Yussef has been sold to leading publishers in the UK, the US,
France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, Israel, Portugal, Denmark, Holland,
Norway, and Brazil.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618959653
• ISBN 13: 9780618959655
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272