From the author ofWelcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction andCocaine + Surfing

A gonzo ride through the Middle East as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author ofWelcome to Paradise, Now Go to HellandCocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfings Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Follow Smith and his misfit band of merrymakers as they search for the true origins of Al Qaeda and endeavor to ride the unsurfed waves of Yemen all while exploring the slim opportunities for fun in the margins of our global war on terror and at what costeven if it means eventual kidnapping by Hezbollah.