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Damascus Trance [Kindle Edition]

Matt Rees (Author)
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Omar Yussef is in Damascus for a university reunion. But the Palestinian sleuth is caught up in the violent government crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, and also faces an old nemesis who's now a senior figure in the state's secret police. This short story is an immediate response to events of the 'Arab Spring' in Syria from the author of the award-winning series of crime novels about Omar Yussef.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 92 KB
  • Print Length: 19 pages
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0050BR88G
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #118,944 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
The Omar Yussef novels have given me a lot of insight into the Arab world, as well as providing exciting, entertaining, often funny reading. Rees tells us in his introduction to this story that he wrote it as an immediate response to the events sweeping the Arab world now. It's a fresh way of looking at the political and social changes that have been called the Arab Spring. If you want something deeper than recent news stories about demonstrations and gun battles, this story is for you. It's like a concentrated version of many of the great things from Rees's novels.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By GC
Format:Kindle Edition
If you are already a fan of Matt Rees's Omar Yussef novels then you won't be disappointed with this short story. If you have yet to read the four full length novels then this is a good place to start as a taster of the real thing.

This story - which I believe is only available as a Kindle download - demonstrates the potential of the ebook format to react quickly to events in the news. As the Arab Spring loses momentum and anti-democracy forces regain control, this story serves as a reminder that people are still dying in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle-East.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Exciting way to look at changes in Arab world 15 May 2011
By Joseph Monmouth - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Rees's Omar Yussef novels have given me a lot of insight into the Arab world, as well as providing exciting, entertaining, often funny reading. Rees tells us in his intro to this story that he wrote it as an immediate response to the events sweeping the Arab world now. It's a fresh way of looking at the political and social changes that have been called the Arab Spring. If you want something deeper than recent news stories about demonstrations and gun battles, this story is for you. It's also a concentrated version of a lot of the great things from Rees's novels.
Graham Greene in Damascus 18 May 2012
By Stella Aretino - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
I've read all Matt Rees's novels, as well as some of his short fiction and nonfiction. I'll read anything he writes, because I love his style, his slightly morbid voice, and the way he takes seemingly dreadful circumstances and uses them to highlight the decency and integrity of his heroes. This story is about Omar Yussef, the hero of Rees's crime novels, on a reunion in Damascus. It weaves in the present civil war in Syria with old hatreds that go back to Omar's student days. It reminds me of some of Graham Greene's writing about Africa and South America, in the kind of tone and voice Rees has, and also in its facility in showing us something that we may have seen in the news in a thoroughly new light.
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