American Jihadist

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  • The
  • first
  • section
  • establishes
  • the
  • relationship
  • between
  • Luke
  • -
  • the
  • narrator
  • -
  • and
  • Gustav,
  • his
  • best
  • friend,
  • who
  • quit
  • college
  • to
  • find
  • adventure
  • by
  • traveling
  • to
  • the
  • Middle
  • East
  • and
  • joining
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • so-called
  • 'terror
  • groups.'
  • Their
  • quest
  • lands
  • them
  • in
  • the
  • middle
  • of
  • the
  • Syrian
  • Civil
  • War
  • in
  • an
  • intense
  • conflict
  • which
  • they
  • immediately
  • are
  • desperate
  • to
  • escape.
  • Trouble
  • seems
  • to
  • appear
  • though
  • at
  • every
  • turn. The
  • escape
  • from
  • the
  • rebel
  • group
  • that
  • is
  • fighting
  • the
  • Syrian
  • regime
  • involves
  • the
  • young
  • men's
  • effort
  • to
  • help
  • some
  • of
  • those
  • who
  • have
  • been
  • devastated
  • by
  • the
  • immense
  • destruction
  • in
  • Syria's
  • "Stalingrad"
  • and
  • they
  • zero
  • in
  • on
  • two
  • refugees
  • who,
  • it
  • appears
  • to
  • them,
  • might
  • be
  • heading
  • to
  • toward
  • a
  • life
  • of
  • modern
  • slavery.
  • Thus,
  • the
  • second
  • part
  • of
  • the
  • novel
  • involves
  • the
  • boys'
  • escape
  • by
  • ship
  • through
  • the
  • Aegean
  • Sea
  • and
  • their
  • suspicions
  • that
  • a
  • young
  • Syrian
  • woman
  • and
  • her
  • small
  • child
  • who
  • are
  • aboard
  • are
  • about
  • to
  • be
  • exploited
  • for
  • the
  • modern
  • slave
  • market.
  • Luke
  • wants
  • desperately
  • to
  • help
  • the
  • possible
  • victims
  • while
  • Gustav
  • is
  • reluctant
  • to
  • get
  • involved
  • because
  • he
  • suspects
  • that
  • the
  • slavers
  • would
  • do
  • anything
  • to
  • protect
  • their
  • "property".
  • He
  • sees
  • the
  • slavers
  • as
  • potentially
  • more
  • lethal
  • than ISIS.
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