The Moment Before: A Novel [Paperback]

Americas global ambitions are reduced to one father, his daughter, and the two men who seek to reunite them.?

The unflinching story of an American-Arabs life in limbo.?

Tricked by the two people closest to him, Elias Haddad leaves his beloved daughter Cheryl Halia for what he believes is a short trip home to Syria to visit his dying father. Largely ignorant of Middle East politics, Elias is detained upon arrival in Damascus and conscripted into Assads army, beginning a forty-year geopolitical odyssey from hell which culminates in his captivity in Guantanamo during Americas post-9/11 War on Terror.?

In her search for her father, Cheryl meets John Veranda, an idealistic lawyer who risks his familys land, his marriage, and his aspirations for his hometowns future for a relationship with Cheryl neither are prepared for.

Stuart Eisenstat, a dedicated federal bureaucrat, thinks hes doing an old friend a favor when he picks Johns hometown as the perfect site for relocating Guantanamo detainees only to come face to face with the personal cost of Americas global ambitions.?

As the author of both fiction and non-fiction, and the winner of 2017 Independent Publishers IPPY GOLD and 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIE SILVER, Jason Makansis writing has been praised as immensely readable, entertaining, enlightening, and essential, and relevant to todays political and cultural environment.

Americas global ambitions are reduced to one father, his daughter, and the two men who seek to reunite them.?

The unflinching story of an American-Arabs life in limbo.?

Tricked by the two people closest to him, Elias Haddad leaves his beloved daughter Cheryl Halia for what he believes is a short trip home to Syria to visit his dying father. Largely ignorant of Middle East politics, Elias is detained upon arrival in Damascus and conscripted into Assads army, beginning a forty-year geopolitical odyssey from hell which cull3Y