The Time Remaining

A modern-day political thriller, The Time Remaining grapples with murder, romance, and international politics. Dodge Didier Gilchrist, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and consummate ladies’ man, finds himself embroiled in an international conflict when his former college roommate, Palestinian scholar Sharif Tabry, is killed under mysterious circumstances. Tabry’s niece, Raya, who has been recently released from incarceration in Israel, begins working for Gilchrist in Washington, DC. When she is injured while trying to save Tabry, Gilchrist quickly discovers he has deep feelings for her.

Gilchrist embarks on a wild ride from Washington to Israel and Palestine as he learns from both Israelis and Palestinians of the suffering of Palestinians under occupation. This spurs an investigation that leads him up the ranks of the Israeli government and into a series of dangerous events. A fast-paced, suspenseful novel, The Time Remaining will keep readers absorbed in Gilchrist and Raya’s growing romance and intrigued by the exciting political drama that wrestles with the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Samuel Hazo is the director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His books include The Rest Is Prose, As They Sail, Stills, and This Part of the World, the latter two published by Syracuse University Press. His translations include Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love.