The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul: Stories

From Cairo to London war correspondent Daniel marosh battles insomnia and hallucinations while fleeing the emotional ravages of conflict and deceit through a dizzying blend of xanax opium alcohol and paid sex.... Told from the perspective of cairo-based European correspondent Daniel marosh the most beautiful night of the soul takes us into the disorienting days and disquieting nights of a man who seeks the truth in the midst of war and chaos even as he fights his own demons. In ‘The Trial’ marosh confronts hard truths when a Kurdish commander in Iraq invites him to view the interrogation of an ISIS suspect; in ‘Winter in the Promised Land’ he spends Christmas in Jerusalem with an Israeli friend a special forces soldier who ensures his kids a happy holiday thanks to a raid in the Gaza strip. In ‘Banana Split’ Marosh and an American journalist colleague pass a dizzying night with a prostitute in Cairo; in ‘Son of a Dog’ he spends days in the heart of cairo’s City of the Dead in a desperate search for opium and forms an unlikely bond with a street kid.... Journalism meets storytelling in this unputdownable collection of linked stories and becomes compelling thrilling literature.