SOPHIA IN THE WHITE CITY

The story of the novel occurred, fictitiously, in Algiers (nicknamed The White City), the capital of Algeria. Ramice Taslent, an editor of a trail-blazing scientific magazine, received in Algiers, during an International Bookfair, sciences German journalist Sophia Weize. She came along with her father Gerd Weize, who represented his Publishing House. Ramice and Sophia knew each other by Internet, and then came the opportunity of her Algiers's visit. They fell in love, but something popped in unexpectedly. Ramice narrated to Sophia the harsh moments Algeria had undergone in the 1990s out of terrorism, himself had seen mates fall dead in ambushes, witnessed countless bombs in Algiers and elsewhere, and could never see his wounds healed, as memories were sorrow-ridden. He complained to Sophia about the blind eye western community had turned to then-suffering Algeria, when this martyred country asked for help in counter-terrorism; but to no avail! Ramice, as Sophia became aware of, had a heart rendered by love-bereft stories and lived terror, in his microcosm, but could be zoomed out globally. Meanwhile, Ramice received a death threat by email, to be executed should he not part with the German stunner! All of a sudden, years of throes and blood and embers crowded to his mind. Sophia revealed him that she had loved a man named Yacine Lejeny; she showed him the photo, and he felt pounded! He was, in actuality, his old friend who had flown to Germany to further studies. Therefore, Ramice suspected Yacine of being the source of threat! Corroborated by the fact that Yacine showed up in Algiers...