Walid, a bookish Palestinian youth who murders an innocent Israeli man to avenge his family’s tragic, generations-old legacy. But when his dying grandmother confesses that their history is a complete fabrication—that they aren’t historic victims, but Syrian migrants—Walid’s righteous fury turns into crushing guilt.
Desperate to apologize to the young widow he spared, Walid flees across the globe to Australia as an international student. But redemption comes at a lethal price. To finance his escape, he is forced to act as a sleeper agent for a ruthless terror cell. Meanwhile, a vengeful Israeli black-ops squad has picked up his trail and will cross any border to hunt him down. Caught in a deadly global crossfire, Walid must outwit his handlers and survive the assassins on his tail long enough to look his victim’s wife in the eyes and tell her the truth.
