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Istanbul Crossing by Timothy Jay Smith
A young gay Syrian, after watching his cousin executed by ISIS for being homosexual, flees to Istanbul for safety. He develops such a good reputation for his resourcefulness in smuggling other refugees to Greece that he’s approached by both the CIA and ISIS to smuggle high-profile individuals on the run, putting him in grave danger on many fronts. In the process of juggling their two operations, he falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures.
From an early age, Timothy Jay Smith developed a wanderlust that took him around the world many times. En route, he found the characters that people his work. Arms dealers, child prostitutes, and wannabe terrorists: he hung with them all while smuggling plays from behind the Iron Curtain, maneuvering through war zones, and being a stowaway aboard a barge that landed him in an African jail. He’s won numerous writing contests, including the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Competition and the Paris Prize for Fiction. Kirkus Reviews called his work “literary dynamite.” His stage plays and screenplays have won or placed in dozens of competitions.
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