Historical fiction
Standalone historical novel
What Fire Could Not Erase
From the dispossession of the Nakba and the secret bargains of Operation Paperclip to the bombings and false flags of the Lavon Affair, governments build the postwar world through deniable violence. In Alexandria in 1954, a print-shop family, workers, students, and prisoners carry evidence through raids, confinement, and fire before the truth can be buried with them.
The conspiracy depends on ordinary people never comparing what they know. When they begin to do exactly that, the operation turns its violence toward the witnesses. Their task is not merely to preserve a document, but to keep one another alive long enough for the document to matter.
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