Osama Caper

by Bruce D. Bullock


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Book Details

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Publication Date : 6/28/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5.5x8.5
Page Count : 105
ISBN : 9780738869506

About the Book

OSAMA CAPER is a thriller novel that would seem, in its first chapters, to be conceived as a book for adolescent readers. Such, however, turns out not to be the case, because the intelligence agents, with whom the two boys become entangled are hard boiled pragmatist operators in the not always savory business of international intrigue. Quinn, an agent of Israel’s Mossad, first encounters Toby and Kevin, both thirteen years of age, snooping at the apartment of the arch villain terrorist, Ali Rakham, whose organization Quinn has infiltrated. The boys are snooping only because Toby has overheard on the bus the plotting of Rakham and Khalidi, his confederate and most adept assassin. Toby understood their conversation in Arabic, because, despite his regular all-American, Anglo-Saxon, protestant boy’s appearance and accent, Toby was born in Egypt, learning Arabic before he learned English.

The CIA has sent Felicity to seduce Rakham and obtain intelligence about his operations. Quinn, in turn, finds Felicity irresistibly attractive and seduces her right out of Ali’s bed into his own. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start because of distrust between them, which requires time to overcome. When Quinn and Felicity discover that Ali suspects the boys of spying and intends to kill them, they abandon temporarily their intelligence missions in order to save the lives of the boys and their families, who are also threatened.

From a CIA safe house, where the boys and their parents have to be put in protective custody, Quinn, Felicity and Toby, as the only available interpreter, set off together to the warehouse whence Ali Rakham’s diabolic, worldwide program of destruction is to be launched that very night. At that site Toby has to rescue Quinn and Felicity, rather than the other way around.

When all is accomplished and Toby’s concert is a triumphant success, Toby and Kevin can return to the normal joys of boyhood in seraphic bliss. This adult tale could not be told as a child’s story without its sometimes salty language. Though some prudes might be offended, every child already knows the infrequent profanities required to lend the story credence, and will certainly not be harmed by reading them. On the contrary, adolescents will be thrilled with the adventures, and probably intellectually enriched.


About the Author

Bruce Bullock, born in Minnesota and currently headquartered there during the tolerable non-winter months, travels in the warm climates of the Greek islands, Mexico, the Pacific and beyond most of the time. Though a veteran of WWII, he insists upon knowing, understanding, teaching and supporting the youngest, most vigorous and relevant generations. (The preceding should end the brief version for the web site. The following should be added to it for the longer version.) Yet, he maintains close ties with those of his own generation who still retain blood in their veins and whose capacity to think and love and learn has not yet calcified. His latest published work is a collection of four tales told of vastly differing content, entitled ‘Four Novellas’. He has another novel in progress, ‘International Competition’ that should appear shortly, another thriller involving international intrigue.