Harb (Paperback)

A group of very high-ranking officials in the US and Russia have plotted to manipulate the Saudis and the Iranians into a war in the Middle East by inciting the Shiites in Arabia into an open rebellion and by arming the Iranians with Nuclear warheads and the rockets to deliver them to predetermined targets.

The hidden purpose in all this was to strike such a devastating blow to the mortal enemies of Western freedom that it would eliminate the unrest and obstruction that has been the source of years of frustration in the Middle East and terrorism throughout the world.

The belief is that eliminating Islam, would thereby guarantee the peace and safety of all citizens and the free world for several generations!

The second reason was to open up the region and its rich oil deposits to foreign development – and profits.

The novel explores the consequences of the great Sunni - Shiia conflict and it's potential to impact the rest of the world.

Hank Turowski grew up in an ethnic neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Parochial school and Johns Hopkins University before gaining a Congressional appointment to Annapolis. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and later received a Master's Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Hank served in combat on a Destroyer, USS Rupertus (DD-851), on a deployment to Vietnam and the Western Pacific. After Vietnam, Hank attended Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, then transferred to the Navy's Engineer Corps and, for the next 18 years moved eight times around the world including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Yorktown, Virginia; Guam, Mariana's Islands; Sigonella, Sicily, and Monterey, Port Hueneme, and San Diego, California. Following Naval service, Hank worked for 3 years in Saudi Arabia, after which he moved to Washington State for 10 years in a variety of technical jobs in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, and Anchorage. In 2008 he returned to Annapolis to manage large facilities projects. In 2012 he returned to Saudi Arabia to build an open pit gold mine, then moved to the tiny island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to act as facility manager then as General Manager for the Base Operations contract. He finally retired to Florida to write full time in 2015. Hank began his "Plebe" and "Infidels" novel series while working in Saudi Arabia. Plebe was published in 1997 and has been continuously in print ever since. In the last six years, Hank has written 9 novels, 3 books of Short Stories and several Screen Plays. His novels "Jihad", "Harb", and "The Angel of Mercy" are continuations of the Infidels series. His latest novel series "The Seraphisis" is a Sci-Fi series with a CS Lewis moral twist.