Honour

When his brothers in faith kick off a campaign of murderous havoc and honour killing, their pacifist ex-comrade Azeem has to figure out who's behind it, re-evaluate his ideals, and save his lover from a lovelorn sheikh, without getting himself killed. A fast-paced, darkly humorous thriller, "Honour" is a controversial meditation on modern evil.

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As a naive teenager, Azeem went to a jihadi training camp in Afghanistan. He learned how to fight, hate the West, andhonour his band of brothers unto death. Now he's in his twenties, he loves his cool, settled London life.  His beautiful lover, Shirin... his chilled-out flat in Bloomsbury... the stirring spiritual certainties of meditating and the mosque...
He's got it all, and he wants to enrich society with his ideals of purity and peace.
But when a young girl he knows is knifed on the street in a bloodily-botched honour killing, Azeem wakes up to the more lethal ideals of some of his comrades in faith. Atrocities mount up--and one by one, Azeem's certainties are ripped to shreds.
Both he and his religion are being dishonoured.
His lover Shirin is kidnapped. Azeem knows he has to act. He has to use the killing skills he learned in Afghanistan to free her and take revenge.
Because to save what he loves, he has to becomewhat he hates--maybe at the cost of his honour.