The Immigrant: The Whistleblower and the Devil

For readers of Educated and Catch and Kill, a memoir at the intersection of immigrant identity and corporate whistleblowing, told with unflinching honesty.

Abdul A. Jaludi was born in Jordan to Palestinian refugees and raised between worlds, caught between the expectations of a strict Arab upbringing and the promise of an American future that always felt just out of reach. When his family settled in Astoria, Queens, he learned quickly what it meant to belong nowhere and everywhere at once.

Years later, he achieved what that journey was supposed to deliver: a successful career at Citibank, stability, and a foothold in the American Dream.

Then he uncovered something he wasn’t meant to see.

Inside one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, Abdul discovered fraud and systemic wrongdoing, and faced a decision few are prepared to make: stay silent, or risk everything.

He chose truth.

What followed was not justice, but retaliation.

Blacklisting. Isolation. The collapse of a career. And a long-haul journey across America that became both refuge and reckoning.

The Immigrant: The Whistleblower and the Devil is a story of survival, identity, and the cost of standing on principle in a system built to protect itself. Told in three movements, arrival, betrayal, and rebirth, it is as much about what was lost as it is about what was rebuilt.

Abdul A. Jaludi was born in Jordan to Palestinian refugees and immigrated to the United States as a child. He later became a senior operations officer at Citibank before transitioning into long-haul trucking.

The Immigrant: The Whistleblower and the Devil is drawn entirely from lived experience, offering a firsthand account of survival, identity, and moral consequence.

His previous work, published under a pen name, has received strong early reader reception, maintaining ratings between 4 and 5 stars on NetGalley.