Ricin! Drones! Al Qaeda! Suicide bombers! The stuff in today’s headlines is accented in this character driven thriller. A Call to Prayer concerns a teacher of English in a private boys school in Istanbul, Mehmet,who has a long-standing association to a terrorist, Ali Bin Shah ram. Turkish intelligence and the CIA force him into becoming a double agent. His handler, Josie, teaches him the craft of spying and in the process he teaches her the lessons of love. But when it comes down to it who will Mehmet betray, his friend or the woman he has come to care for? From the cobblestoned streets of Istanbul to the back alleys of Athens and Cairo, to the safe houses in Yemen; from terrorist plots aimed at the Paris metro, the American Embassy in Madrid and New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, this page never lets up and fails to let you down
