Synopsis
A heart-wrenching thriller of a father's desperate mission to save his radicalized daughter from the clutches of ISIS.
What would you do if your daughter fled towards danger? Morgan Jones' The Good Sister shows just how far one father will go to rescue a daughter who doesn't want to be saved.
One quiet morning, seventeen-year-old Sofia Mounir, disillusioned with her life in London, boards a flight to Turkey, leaving her father still asleep. By the time the police realise she's missing, Sofia is already in Syria, ready to fight for the only cause she still believes in.
Her devastated father knows he must save her and will go to the ends of the earth to bring her back. But how do you rescue a daughter who doesn't want to be saved?
Set against the backdrop of the Syrian civil war, this gripping international thriller delves into the complexities of the father-daughter relationship, the allure of radicalization, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love. ‘Syria, ISIS, radicalisation, parental love & the zeitgeist wrapped up in a poetic page-turner of epic proportions,’ praises James O'Brien, author of How to Be Right.
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12 July 2018
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Syria, Isis, radicalisation, parental love & the zeitgeist wrapped up in a poetic page-turner of epic proportionsJames O'Brien
Sofia’s visceral chronicle of self-radicalisation is delivered in a persuasive voice. It could have been a literary novel along the lines of Kamila Shamsie’s award-winning Home Fire, but a tense second strand is added – the desperate Abraham, whom she regards as westernised and lost to the faith, travelling to Syria in an attempt to save her. His terrifying encounters with people-traffickers and violent jihadis pulse with tension. But the real achievement of the novel lies in the portrait of a naive young woman realising that the pure religious caliphate she has committed to is a place of betrayal, misogyny and lethal danger.Guardian
Morgan Jones’s The Good Sister centres on a father heading to Syria via Turkey on a rescue mission . . . Interwoven with his narrative is the first-person story of his teenage daughter Sofia, a devout Muslim who flees to the “caliphate”, where she is swiftly married to a mujahid . . . Both are handled remarkably convincingly in an enthralling adventure story peopled with memorable charactersSunday Times
Deft, complex and believable plotting, tense, gut-wrenching action, and classy literary writingKirkus (on The Jackal's Share)
