Murphy crafts emotional tale of escaping Saddam's wrath
"A Thousand Veils'' by D.J. Murphy

This thriller beginning in the fall of 2002, a few months before the American invasion of Iraq, follows the harrowing and emotional story of Fatima Shihabi, an Iraqi poet and journalist who is targeted by Saddam Hussein's secret police, On the run, she flees Iraq, evading helicopters hunting her in the desert, only to discover that no other country will grant her asylum. Her escapes from Saddam's vengeance and the heroic efforts of Charles Sherman, a Wall Street lawyer, to save her life is the subject of this gripping novel, inspired by a true story.

The suspense in this novel written by international lawyer D.J. Murphy matches any of the most compelling stories on the bookshelf. His lyrical style, emotional highs and lows and his descriptions of the desert and surroundings in New York, Paris, the French Alps, Saudi Arabia and Baghdad pull the reader in and won't let them up for air until the very end.

The background of Fort Collins author D.J. Murphy is as rich as the characters in his story and explains how he was able to write this compelling yarn.