Closer Than You Think: Isis Terrorists in Your Neighborhood

by Richard Scott

What if your neighbor's son or daughter has been persuaded to join ISIS? Worse, what if the son or daughter of a friend has gone over to the terrorist group? When retired CIA operative Tony Dantry is contacted by old friend Quentin Ramos for a favor, it leads to something much bigger and far more threatening than Tony ever imagined. Ramos suspects that his son, a clean-cut extremely likable college student, has been communicating with ISIS terrorists. Because of Dantry's CIA experience and law enforcement connections, Ramos thinks Tony can look into the situation more discreetly than he as a parent could. Ramos didn't want to snoop into the personal life of his son, but things had gotten so serious that something had to be done before it was too late to save his son. Dantry agrees to help and finds himself inextricably drawn into something that all of us read about in the news every day, but don't believe could happen to us.

388 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2015

About the author

Richard Scott is a retired editor, writer, and publisher, having been president and publisher of the David McKay Company and president and publisher of Fodor's Travel Publications. He's also been managing editor of American Bookseller and Bookselling this Week. Mr. Scott was co-host with Isaac Asimov, Brendan Gill and Nat Hentoff of a talk show called In Conversation. The show was nationally syndicated in the U.S. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts.