The ISIS Project is historically inspired fiction. The characters in this, the second of an intended five part series are wholly the product of my imagination. The newspapers and features cited in this work are also fictional, any non-fictional references are cited by source. It is alleged by various and sundry criminologists that there are over thirty Russian Crime Syndicates in the United States centered in every major city including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle. As crime festers in an environment where individual freedom is suppressed, only time will tell to what extent the Russian Mafyia will influence the American lifestyle and economy.

In the aftermath of  9/11 crimininal justice lecturer of Anglo-Arab heritage Professor Emily Cowan is called back into government service to track the funds of al Qaeda. Gathering intelligence as her own search for ethnic identity unfolds, Emily a charismatic yet self-confessed deviant in her fifties, former asset and quinessential radical turned conservative must face her own ethnic duality, belief structure, controversial past and contacts.Terrorist camp trained in war-torn Lebanon forty years before while running away from a religious fanatical husband Emily accepted her ultra secret and unofficial assignments in exchange for protection. Secure in her new persona as terrorist Amina Desai she does not realise as a younger woman those whom she valued as colleagues will continue to exercise control in her life decades later. Emily Cowan is certainly not prepared for the dire consequences or the ultimate betrayal as she searches for the mastermind behind al Qaeda when begins her...