THE MIDDLE STATE

At the scene of a terrorist attack in London, police recover a charred business card, on the back of which they are able to decipher a name and an address. This leads the intelligence service to a reclusive bookseller living in a quiet provincial city. What is the connection between James Maguire and the elusive Rafiq, the head of the terrorist cell? When he falls into the hands of foreign agents, Maguire is rescued by a television journalist and the spirited Kate Dylan; but a tragic sequence of events has already been set in motion. THE MIDDLE STATE is more than a finely crafted contemporary thriller. It explores the paradoxes and tensions not only in the central character, but also within the people who populate his world.