In 1994, I lived and worked in a desert oil camp in eastern Saudi Arabia, and wrote the beginnings of The Infidels. I then returned to Arabia in 2012 to work on a gold mine site in western Arabia.Between my first and second visits, the world had changed significantly, but Arabia stayed the same.When I wrote the first book in the series "Infidels", I realized that the story was not complete. As a result, I expanded the plot and the characters, and what began as a single idea has expanded into a 4-book series.As I have come to discover, Arabia is the nexus of all that is happening in the world today. We may think we in the West are important; but Arabia controls all our futures.The Infidels and its follow-on novels, "Jihad", "Harb, and "The Angel of Mercy", tell the story of an American Engineer, Kevin O'Reilly, who must confront the dangerous realities of being a Westerner living and working in a muslim culture."Harb" explores the potential consequences of the great Sunni - Shiia conflict, it's potential to impact the rest of the world, and one American's efforts to avert a world tragedy.
About the Author: Hank Turowski grew up in an ethnic neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Parochial school and Johns Hopkins University before gaining a Congressional appointment to Annapolis. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and later received a Master's Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Hank served in combat on a Destroyer, USS Rupertus (DD-851), on a deployment to Vietnam and the Western Pacific. After Vietnam, Hank attended Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, then transferred to the Navy's Engineer Corps and, for the next 18 years moved eight times around the world including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Yorktown, Virginia; Guam, Mariana's Islands; Sigonella, Sicily, and Monterey, Port Hueneme, and San Diego, California. Following Naval service, Hank worked for 3 years in Saudi Arabia, after which he moved to Washington State for 10 years in a variety of technical jobs in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, and Anchorage. In 2008 he returned to Annapolis to manage large facilities projects. In 2012 he returned to Saudi Arabia to build an open pit gold mine, then moved to the tiny island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to act as facility manager then as General Manager for the Base Operations contract. He finally retired to Florida to write full time in 2015. Hank began his "Plebe" and "Infidels" novel series while working in Saudi Arabia. Plebe was published in 1997 and has been continuously in print ever since. In the last six years, Hank has written 9 novels, 3 books of Short Stories and several Screen Plays. His novels "Jihad", "Harb", and "The Angel of Mercy" are continuations of the Infidels series. His latest novel series "The Seraphisis" is a Sci-Fi series with a CS Lewis moral twist.