Terrorist by John Updike

John Updike's twenty-second novel tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. Ahmad is pulled by two forces: that of a guidance counselor who strives to steer Ahmad from fundamentalist influences, and of a Lebanese jihadist, whose guidance would lead Ahmad in a more dangerous direction.

Review of Terrorist by John Updike