Moreover, all three are about stories: battles over truth, where contending versions of events and motives clash. Each novel asks what happens to the truth when it falls prey to political expediency. Characters operate in a market for ideas and information, where the “customers” are either intelligence agencies or newspaper editors or media consumers. In each, characters end up being sacrificed to meet the demands of certain dominant sets of interest.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 316