It's always somebody else's war. Until you're in it.
Beirut, April 1975. A British couple newly arrived in the city. An American journalist who knows everybody and fears nothing. His Palestinian girlfriend, beguiling—and with her own secrets.
When clashes between rival militias break out, the four of them watch from what feels like a safe distance—expatriate observers, spectators of somebody else's conflict. But as the fighting heats up, so do their relationships. Someone feels betrayed. And they discover that in civil war, there are no civilians.
'The Foreign Aide' is a psychological thriller about a marriage and a country both victims of self-destruction—and about the catastrophic consequences of being drawn into a conflict you don't understand by people you shouldn't trust.
If you enjoy books by Graham Greene, John le Carre and William Boyd, you'll feel right at home here.
