Backchannel: rabt

This work is dedicated to the hapless victims of war whose rights mean nothing to those nations with their own political and territorial agendas; and to bring scrutiny to those individuals who act in the name of the state they serve without any fear of the consequences of their acts, respectively."

Meet Doug McKenzie, a charismatic Black Irish Investigative Reporter for the New York's Gotham Times; whose reports have attracted international enemies. with the resources to neutralize him. In response, a clandestine 'Backchannel' is activated between two governments: in the United States, the State Department, in the Middle East a not so friendly head of government who had first thought of a 'Fatwa', a religious edict to take him down, but a less violent but just as effective means: using his own government, the US Government, to silence his penmanship.

But the Reporter isn't alone. His teen age daughter, Rachel McKenzie, celebrated in her own right, with access to the Mayor's Office and even the Oval Office, celebrated for Rachel's Theory, the location of a nuclear device in the Radiology Department of a hospital in Lower Manhattan (the radioactive emissions of the bomb wouldn't get noticed because of the emissions of the radioactive isotopes stored there).

Journey with the reporter from the power corridors of Washington, DC to the bustling streets of Osaka, Japan; from the political heart of Ankara, Turkey to the border crossing at Bazargan, Iran. Accessed by one of the most dangerous roads in the world beginning at Dogubazit.

More on Doug McKenzie: described by has daughter as one of the most beautiful men she has ever seen, and this includes the 'big screen' his personal life - his marriage to Turkish-born Nukhet hangs by a thread, complicated by their one-year-old daughter Sirin, and the reemergence of his enigmatic lover, Dr. Laurie Reynolds; and the list might go on to others not revealed by the writer here.