Jamal Saifuddin is an editor for a literary magazine. He keeps to a routine, and he lets that govern his life. However, when he loses his job because of a car accident, his life is changed forever. Desperate to find work, Jamal depends on a strange and dark man named Feres who promises him work. Little does Jamal know that the "work" Feres promises leads him to a secretive organization that has terrorist ties.

In Omer Kazmi's The Temptation of Jamal, we as readers navigate a world of religion, politics, and international intrigue. Jamal's search for answers leads him to unexpected places. Will he find out who is behind this conspiracy, or will he end up forever in the dark?

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"In The Temptation of Jamal, Kazmi takes you, along with his supremely American protagonist, on a spiritual journey through an unmistakably 21st Century landscape of belief, purpose, and identity. What you find will surprise and enlighten you in this book that is hard to put down and hard to stop thinking about when you do." - Grant Matthew Jenkins, author of the novel Ivory Tower