The excellent series (which I recently rented on DVD) involves an undercover FBI agent who is a Muslim and who infiltrates a terror cell planning an attack in the United States. Within two years of getting his MFA, Pasha was nominated for a Golden Globe for co-producing and writing the Showtime television series Sleeper Cell. He added to his numerous degrees a Masters in Fine Arts from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Shortly after starting his law career, Pasha left for Los Angeles to embark on a career in the film industry. Pasha went on to get a law degree from Cornell and an MBA from Dartmouth and then began work with the large New York law firm Paul Weiss. After graduating Dartmouth, he went on to work as a reporter for Knight Ridder and interviewed world leaders including Prime Minister Bhutto. Kamran Pasha was born in Karachi and moved to the US as a young child. Best, however, is Pasha’s clear depictions of Saladin’s and Richard’s astute political and military leadership styles as they rally their forces to fight yet another religious war neither would win.On this very sad and worrisome day, I thought it appropriate to select a Pakistani American and one who has helped fight the forces of extremism.
This is a suspenseful, action-packed historical filled with intrigue, treachery, revenge, massive atrocity, and gory scenes of battlefield butchery. Miriam is the niece of Maimonides, Saladin’s trusted physician, and she has the power and will to thwart one man’s plans and save the kingdom of the other.
Both men are cunning and ruthless, and both are victims of the wiles of a beautiful young Jewish woman’s plotting-one man as her lover, the other as an enemy. Richard the Lionheart leads the armies of the European Crusaders, while Saladin commands the Muslim forces in Palestine. The bloodshed of the Third Crusade is vividly portrayed in Pasha’s second novel (Mother of All Believers), an excellent swords and sandals saga that takes in the action from an early Islamic perspective.
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