Opium Author:Salar Abdoh Opium is the story of a world-weary young American, Cyrus Chase, who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low level drug runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitabl... more »y catches up with him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of them most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder, and double-deals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil.« less