The Time Remaining

Dodge Didier Gilchrist, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and consum­mate ladies man, finds himself embroiled in an international conflict when his former college roommate, Palestinian scholar Sharif Tabry, is killed under mysterious circumstances. Tabrys niece, Raya, who has been recently released from incarceration in Israel, begins working for Gilchrist in Washington, DC. When she is injured while trying to save Tabry, Gilchrist quickly discovers he has deep feelings for her. A modern-day political thriller, The Time Remaining grapples with murder, romance, and international politics. Gilchrist embarks on a wild ride from Washington to Israel and Palestine as he learns from both Israelis and Palestinians of the suffering of Palestinians under occupation. This spurs an investigation that leads him up the ranks of the Israeli government and into a series of dangerous events. A fast-paced, suspenseful novel, The Time Remaining will keep readers absorbed in Gilchrist and Rayas growing romance and intrigued by the exciting political drama that wrestles with the complexities of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

<b>Samuel Hazo</b> is the director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His books include <i>Like a Man Gone Mad: Poems in a New Century, The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations, Stills, </i>and <i>This Part of the World. </i>His translations include Nadia Tueni’s <i>Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love.</i>