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The Bamiyan Paradox: A Johnny Marquez Thriller
Paperback
Series: A Johnny Marquez Thriller, Book 1
Publisher: Rwligon
Published: Mar 16 2026
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A father's secret. A son raised to kill. A war that was always personal.
In January 2001, a Palestinian leader and an Israeli prime minister meet in secret at a Vatican-brokered summit to sign an impossible peace. Within hours, the agreement is betrayed - and the man who brokered it is taken.
The kidnapping sets off a chain of violence stretching from the West Bank to Palm Beach to the mountains of Afghanistan, where a warlord waits in the shadow of the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas with a hostage he intends to use as bait.
The CIA sends the one man who knows the terrain: John Marquez, a former archaeologist who fled Afghanistan in 1978, leaving behind the woman he loved - and a son he didn't know she carried.
Twenty-three years later, John returns to rescue a hostage. But the young soldier guarding the prisoner has ice-blue Marquez eyes.
The captor is the son he abandoned - raised as a weapon, aimed at everything his father represents.
Now John faces an impossible choice: complete the mission, or save the boy his absence created. In a valley where empires go to die, the most dangerous thing isn't the enemy. It's the truth.
Set on the eve of September 11th, The Bamiyan Paradox is a sweeping thriller about inherited violence, impossible loyalties, and whether a father can reclaim a son from the wreckage of history.
For readers of Daniel Silva, Khaled Hosseini, and Tom Clancy.
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