Title: The Brides' Fair
Author: Hal Fleming
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN-10: 1605637068
Pages: 212, Paperback
Genre: Fiction
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Synopsis
The Brides' Fair, an annual folkloric event in the Atlas mountains in Morocco, serves as an exotic setting for a novel of international intrigue and terrorism. Americans, mountain Berbers, Moroccan Arabs and those of a rebel faction converge on the festival, and it soon becomes clear that their fates are interwoven. The plot is driven by attempts to forestall an act of terrorism, while sub-plots tell of the tangled love interests of the Americans; the frantic efforts of a young Berber girl to escape a forced marriage; the trails of local officials in dealing with threats to their country's national security; and the obstacles faced by a small band of terrorists in carrying out their mission to disrupt the fair. A major disaster is averted at the last minute with discovery that one giving aid to the terrorists was an American of the diplomatic community.
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About the Author
Hal Fleming has been official with the Peace Corps, the Department of the State, the US Mission to the United Nations and UNICEF. He has lived ten years in the West and North Africa and been on official missions to over 30 countries throughout the world. Early on he worked at Forbes Inc. in New York and also taught at the university level. He speaks passable French and a bit of Arabic and holds degrees from Brown and Columbia Universities. He has published various works which can be on his website, www.halflem.com and on Goggle. He now lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Arlene, a leading expert of historic preservation, and their dog, Bogie, and avid chaser of deer and squirrels.
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