City of Strangers: A Jack Liffey Mystery (Otto Penzler Books)

In the sixth novel of this best-selling private-eye series, Jack Liffey probes the complex ethnic mix—Muslim, Jewish, Baha'i, Christian, and secular—of the Persian communities in Los Angeles. A gripping tale that confronts youthful idealism with perfervid fundamentalism, it lands bright, earnest Fariborz Bayat, who has gone missing from an elite L.A. high school with three other Persian-American boys, in a cell of Arab terrorists. Hired to find the boys, Liffey finds himself in a nightmare, unless he and Fariborz can thwart the cell's plot to set off a dirty bomb full of radioactive waste high over L.A. Los Angeles private investigator Jack Liffey is hired by his old college classmate to find his missing daughter, who has disappeared from a private school along with four Iranian boys John Shannon. An Otto Penzler Book.