What begins as a love story could end as a worldwide disaster. The chance meeting of a single Jewish woman and a Muslim man, develops into marriage and a family. With infrequent influence from the Jewish side of the family, their son, Alan, decides to live a Muslim life. In his teen years Alan becomes radicalized. A very bright student he quickly finishes medical training. He uses his medical genius however, to bring terror in the form of virus disease upon Israelis and a pandemic on Americans. Only the Mossad, the Joint Terrorist Task Force, and an immunologist from California and now the East Coast, can possibly stop this angry man and his network.
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Fiction
Invisible Threat
September 1, 2020
Discussion Questions
Courtesy of Robert Hirsch
A plethora of Book Club discussion topics- To vaccinate or not vaccinate!! On the surface, Invisible Threat is a pandemic and political thriller, written before COVID-19 hit us in the USA. However, the author weaves several other important and very topical subjects for discussion in
- Home grown terrorism from within the United States.
- How to handle a pandemic in the country.
- Hate- Israel and the Palestinians – what happens next?
- Long term hate anywhere? Parallels between hate and virus infection; spreading and then blooming until out of control.
- Intermarriage in the Jewish culture; Muslim culture.
- Does the Western world support Israel.
- Does Dr. Mazer, the main antagonist, have any feelings for his mother? Could their relationship ever have been rehabilitated?
- Nari Lee and Alan Mazer- parallel lives of first generation Americans; given the best education but ending in different places.
the novel that are relevant today.
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