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A novel of considerable power. - The Times

Too close to the real world for comfort. - Far Eastern Economic Review

 

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On a February evening in northern Africa, Samira and Yasin Omer watch their  parents die in the cross-fire of a hostage-rescue.   Samira is vivacious and  sociable. Yasin is a brilliant student and a thinker. They are twins, left with no family except each other.

ABSOLUTE MEASURES, chilling in its predictions, was published two years before Nine Eleven. It tracks the psychological development of a brilliant young Muslim student, Yasin Omer. He sets out to become an international banker. He ends up planning a devastating and suicidal terror attack. Why?