In the ancient Silk Road city of Aleppo...
a young American woman is sucked into the Syrian civil war engulfing the city. Pursued by a secret-police officer who blames her for the death of his son, her only refuge is the rebel hospital run by a surgeon who's also in the crosshairs.
The Doctor of Aleppo
While working in the ancient Silk Road city of Aleppo, American Hannah Johnson and her Swedish lover Oskar are drawn into the turbulence of the impending Syrian civil war.
After Oskar is wounded at a street protest, he and Hannah cross paths with Dr. Samir Hasan, a renowned surgeon. As the protests swell into all-out war, Dr. Hasan tends not only to Oskar, but also risks his life, his practice, and his family to aid a nephew the government has branded an insurgent.
When Dr. Hasan’s humanitarian activities come to the attention of a vengeful secret-police officer—whose son has died on Dr. Hasan’s watch—it triggers a series of events that will drag Hannah and Oskar deeper into the war and put Hannah and Dr. Hasan in the officer’s crosshairs.
Both intimate and sweeping in scope, The Doctor of Aleppo lends insight into how the most brutal, devastating war of the 21st century is mirrored on the personal scale.
