The Mirage

11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . .
Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage -- in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries. "Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story.

Author(s): Matt Ruff
ISBN: 9780061976230
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 2013
Number of Pages: 414