Midnight in Syria: a Real-world tale of Courage, Romance, and Resilience - Based on a true Story - Book 2
Jacek Waliszewski
This fast paced, page-turning story is best read on a weekend so you don't have to put it down. Midnight in Syria is a homage to the double life of a trained warrior who seeks to find a way to hold on to his purpose in the opposing realities of survival and destruction, making the best of both worlds without censure or self deprecation. The journalist learns to release stoic ambition and keep her self respect in the aftermath of a harrowing journey that yields to finding sanity again back home.Jacek, himself a US special forces green beret, draws from his own experiences to take the reader through a fictional account of a risk taking female journalist's determined attempt to get another high end news story. It lands her in an unknown hotel in the middle east where she is trapped from escaping to safety while the city is under attack.
Told from the point of view of an idealistic journalist, Dakota, and a well trained special ops soldier, Owen, whom she meets along the way, they barely pull off a complicated getaway to flee a country under seige. Their tumultuous relationship tips back and forth between withholding and testing each other, to curiously and cautiously moving toward each other. Strained by life threatening barriers and relying on their own smarts and audacity, the couple finds an eventual pattern of survival in the desert, culminating in the tents of a Bedouin community that takes them in at the final hour. We are privy to the modern insecurities in Dakota as she tries not to fall in love and the philosophic soldier who blends his logic with his openness to love in a "I've got nothing to lose" situation.
Jacek does an incredible job to soften the harshness of the situation with a narrative interludes that describe the animal life on the ground scrounging around to get by, despite the invasion of war machines and the violent doings of the human beings, which reminds us to stay true to our humanity above all else.
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