>  Oh!  I remembered that book wrong, then.  I thought it was
> mostly about the
>  conflict between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.  (Am I
> hallucinating
>  again, or is that another book of yours?)
>   >>
> I think that's succubus sea, shal.
>
> Mike S.

Oh, I'm blushing that people remember the plots of my novels. :-)
(Even if they get the titles mixed up.)

Janus Incubus:

The story of a gifted young man who wants to be a writer, kills
someone in a fit of rage in a bookstore, and then ends up swapping
identities in India with the man who saved him from suicide by
drowning. He becomes successful as an author after the swap, but has
lost his ethical roots, and becomes a real bastard. He finally returns
to his old self, but at the moment he does, he is shot by the Montreal
police while reaching into his bag to pull out ... a book to sign.

Succubus Sea:

The story of a man with an American father and Iranian mother who is
blocked creatively as a painter. On his father's death, he returns to
New York for the funeral, and is hired as an art instructor. He starts
a relationship with the daughter of one of his childhood friends from
Iran, a young dancer studying dance in New York. The relationship
evolves tot he point where Cyrus Drake realizes he must return to the
Iran of his childhood to uncover the true reason his mother was found
dead on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Abadoun:

The story of 13 people on or about the last day in the life of an
Iranian-Kurdish village. The protagonist, returning from Baghdad on a
mission to go to Teheran to free a political prisoner, must pass
through Abadoun on the night before and morning before the
noon-attack. As the man walks through the town on his business, he
passes people, and each person whose life crosses his is examined in
detail. The man must decide to warn the town, and thus save them all
but doom himself as a spy, or to go on to rescue the political
prisoner, and let them all be gassed.

--
Quinn Tyler Jackson

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