A Booming Business in Bombs

Iran has a restricted and closely monitored society – an inconvenience that Jack Abramian, a super-rich Californian with Armenian roots, is determined to change. From his giant industrial base in southern Armenia, he instigates Operation Snowdrop: a select group of daredevil pilots drop ten million ready-to-use mobile phones on Iranian cities. They fall like snowflakes, on tiny parachutes, and the first SMS message, „A Gift From Allah, Now Ideas Are Free”, is read by masses of disbelieving people. The phones are linked to the Pentagon's LEO satellite system that is out of reach of the Mullahs, who are taken completely by surprise. On the verge of becoming a nuclear power, they suddenly have to cope with the threat posed by unlimited free communication that has unsettled the country overnight.

James Douglas began his writing career working as a journalist for a Swiss newspaper while studying civil and criminal law in Berne. His first bestselling novel, Brennpunkt Philadelphia, was published in 1997 in New York by Marlowe &Co under the title Zero Philadelphia. It went on to be adapted by Cameron Docherty into a major motion picture released by Paramount, produced by Steve Perry and directed by director Stuart Baird. Atemlos nach Casablanca was published in 2002, as Breathless to Casablanca, by Welcome Rain Publishers. The story was written and published in Germany a year before the attacks of September 11, 2001, and critics called it „amazingly and eerily prophetic”. For more information about the author, go to www.james-douglas.com