Lawless Elements
Book Details
Author(s)Greg Bascom
ISBN / ASIN1467965626
ISBN-139781467965620
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank4,582,817
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Bascom's fast-paced fiction debut introduces a compelling new series protagonist, Steve Bryce, in a blend of adventure, thrills and adult romance.
Steve, an American businessman, is living in the Philippines with Amina Taiba, a Muslim activist devoted to the struggle against those who would seize the resource-rich lands of the Moros in Central Mindanao, an ungoverned territory. Amina's family intends to break up their relationship and Steve's employer will terminate him if he gets involved in Philippine politics. Steve endures these challenges until a professional thief steals Amina's secret databases. before Steve can learn what her files contain, Amina disappears. Defying his employer and Amina's family, Steve pursues Amina and becomes mired in a clandestine world of spies, terrorists and assassins.
Bascom transports the reader to the exotic Philippines and the conflict between imperial Manila and the Moros, the predominately-Muslim tribes. The Moros adapted Islam to conform to their tribal traditions. Although Moro women like Amina might pray in the back of the mosque, they enjoy powers and freedoms not tolerated in other Islamic societies. For 350 years, the Moros have fought to retain that culture and their land. Lawless Elements illuminates what may be the last chapter in their struggle.
Lawless Elements is a Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal winner. The judge, Brandi Bowles, wrote: "I chose your MS because I greatly admired your ability to paint the complex relationship between Steve and Amina."
Steve, an American businessman, is living in the Philippines with Amina Taiba, a Muslim activist devoted to the struggle against those who would seize the resource-rich lands of the Moros in Central Mindanao, an ungoverned territory. Amina's family intends to break up their relationship and Steve's employer will terminate him if he gets involved in Philippine politics. Steve endures these challenges until a professional thief steals Amina's secret databases. before Steve can learn what her files contain, Amina disappears. Defying his employer and Amina's family, Steve pursues Amina and becomes mired in a clandestine world of spies, terrorists and assassins.
Bascom transports the reader to the exotic Philippines and the conflict between imperial Manila and the Moros, the predominately-Muslim tribes. The Moros adapted Islam to conform to their tribal traditions. Although Moro women like Amina might pray in the back of the mosque, they enjoy powers and freedoms not tolerated in other Islamic societies. For 350 years, the Moros have fought to retain that culture and their land. Lawless Elements illuminates what may be the last chapter in their struggle.
Lawless Elements is a Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal winner. The judge, Brandi Bowles, wrote: "I chose your MS because I greatly admired your ability to paint the complex relationship between Steve and Amina."
