A Call to Prayer

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

M. Jules Bevans was the creator of the Playboy Book Series, The World of High Fashion, for which he authored three of the six novels under a pseudonym. His articles and interviews have appeared in national and international magazines and newspapers including the Sunday New York Times, Us, Ladies Home Journal and Penthouse (UK). "The Roommates" a two act drama, was successfully produced at New York's Manhattan Theater Club. He was also editor in chief a national fashion magazine, Men's Style. As a young man he had the opportunity of visiting many American embassies and became fascinated with the lives of individuals who were part of the foreign corps.