Blood For Honor

Darting out the door of his Riyadh villa, six-year-old Gabriel was on a familiar mission; to earn his Saudi father's love and add honor to their tribal name. Author Gabriel Justice proceeds to escort readers through the next twelve years of his Saudi home life and Wahhabi-curriculum schooling, followed by a deployment to and return from Iraq as a United States Marine Corps combat veteran. The entire trek reveals his relentless desire to win the thumb-of-approval and honor from those who indoctrinated his life. The validation Gabriel desperately desired was illusive and fleeting. His Eastern and Western cultural demands were uncooperative. In school, he learned the horrifying fact that it was impossible for him to enter Paradise, unless he was willing to pay an unthinkable price. The moment he had been conceived by his Islamic Saudi father and infidel American mother, the irreversible damage of mixed blood doomed him. His Sheik teacher informed him and his classmates that Hellfire was pumping through his veins and into his heart. But, the good news was that he could receive Allah's mercy through one action alone. The idea of executing Allah's perfect solution fractured his heart, conflicting and tormenting him. After graduating from high school, he flew to the country of his birth to join the United States Marine Corps. With a Top Secret clearance, he was deployed back to the Middle Eastern region of his youth where he worked Intelligence, layering an additional minefield of trauma that Justice was compelled to resolve. As he chronicles his life, unprecedented revelations and startling exposures are revealed; the why of 9/11; the how of cold, nonchalant barbaric beheadings in the 21st century; the twisted beauty of war.