The Mask

About this book

"Behind every face.. a story fearing the light." Have you ever wondered about the price one may pay for feeling safe? Yousef Abdel-Rahman, the insurance employee who mastered the art of convincing people to protect against the unknown, never knew his profession would one day lead him into a gray zone where no contract protects and no caution avails. The story begins with a "strange deal" in which a restless businessman requests insurance on his hand's fingers, leaving behind a sealed envelope and a mysterious will: "Open it only when you hear news of me." Overnight Yousef finds himself embroiled in a horrid crime puzzle transcending reason's bounds; a fingerless corpse, number-coded messages, and threads extending to reveal society's other face hiding behind "masks" of falseness. It is a harsh human journey where the hero searches for truth amid rubble of debts, threats, and painful memories of a woman called Rana, while trying to decode the merciless "dark web" showing no mercy to passersby. The novel "The Mask" is no mere detective work.