num_pages: 144
description: An emotional look at the root causes of terrorism from MacArthur Prizewinning author Jay Cantor. What causes terrorism? After his fiance dies during the 9/11 attacks the question plagues Aaron Goodman. It makes him give up his career as a doctor to become an interrogator/torturer at Guantanamo Bay. And yet hes still no less obsessed. He begins overseeing experiments of how meme theory might program people into becoming suicide bombers. (Could there be a science behind terrorism?) Still nothing  until he meets Ahmed a Gitmo prisoner who might know how the jihadists are using a variation of meme theory in their camps. To finally learn the truth Aaron and Ahmeds search will take them from Gitmo to the jihadist camps in Pakistan right back to Ground Zero in New York City. But where do Ahmeds real loyalties lie and will Aarons exploration into terrorist camps make him as much of a threat as those hes protecting his country against?
language: English
title: Aaron and Ahmed
publisher: Vertigo