Pulitzer-Prize-win­ning reporter Roger Char­lin feels that air­line screen­ing pro­ce­dures are demean­ing vio­la­tions of civ­il rights. They amount to racial pro­fil­ing. When he decides to do a sto­ry about it, he finds him­self involved with an attrac­tive Israeli secu­ri­ty agent who makes him think about the pol­i­tics of the Mid­dle East in a new way. When his old jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor tips him off about a top-secret nuclear project in a lab at Prince­ton, he has anoth­er volatile polit­i­cal sto­ry to cov­er. Are the two relat­ed? What does the beau­ti­ful Israeli agent real­ly want? The fast-paced sto­ry has Roget shut­tling between New York, Prince­ton, and Israel in a race to pre­vent anoth­er war in Israel. Read­ers will enjoy the sto­ry, which will make them think about bias, ​“group­think,” and how these social con­sid­er­a­tions affect news cov­er­age and politics.

Relat­ed Con­tent:: Mid­night Alley: An Ash Levine Nov­el by Miles Corwin