Robert Todd Wise is an American writer who currently resides in Lebanon. Dr. Wise has a Ph.D. in the history of religion and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He has lived and worked in American Indian Country and in the Middle East, and is a student of cross cultural conflict and resolution. His newly released novel "The Black Hills" is a fast paced thriller exploring the common struggles of indigenous people through informed descriptions of both Lakota and Bedouin Islamic cultures. The dangerous tensions existing between mainstream globalism and indigenous settings are especially accentuated, with an unfolding theme to reverse multi-generational trauma and injustice. Readers will take away realistic insight into the vicious nature of international conflict, a recognition that the struggle between East and West is far from over, and a conviction that the destiny of America and western civilization still hovers in the balance.