Geoff Daplyn

The Sniper, the Shopkeeper and Sami Geoff Daplyn

A suicide bombing in Jerusalem brings Medad, a 20 year old Israeli Defence Forces sniper and Hani, a young Palestinian shopkeeper, into each other's lives. Their lives will become deeply intertwined in a peace process.

Ayshaa, Hani's wife, wants a different life for her little girl Rena and begins working with other Palestinian organisations to empower women with the risk of religious and cultural tensions. As the story unfolds, there is the inevitable role for Chuck, the American diplomat; Abd Alraheem the Palestinian traitor; Larry the CIA contact, Angra Mainyu, the Iranian 'diplomat' based in Lebanon and Sami, the teenage blogger from Gaza.

A well connected, yet shadowy Israeli hard right wing group also begin to take matters into their own hands to even up the odds, as they see it.

What will Hamas do? Who will win? Who will lose? Who will survive?