The Poet Game: A Novel.(Brief Article)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2002 | Copyright information

The Poet Game: A Novel. By Salar Abdoh. New York: Picador USA, 2000. 228 pp. $12.

Abdoh, born in Iran and now teaching English at the City College of New York, has written what may be the first-ever novel about militant Islamic terrorism in the United States. Unexpectedly, perhaps, this is not a page-turning story of intrigue and drama, but a roman noir full of layers of complication and brooding introspection.

The plot: Sami is dispatched by a super-secret intelligence agency in Iran to New York to infiltrate the terrorist rings in America. His purpose--and here begins the ...

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