The Last Cocktail in Yemen is a thrilling, character-driven story of love and betrayal between a U.S. naval officer plagued with self-doubt and an Egyptian journalist with a secret past. They find love and redemption in each other as they try to escape a country ravaged by war.

She's the most famous journalist in the Arab world. Nobody knows who she really is.

Sana'a, Yemen, 2014. The Sheraton's top-floor bar has no view, no cocktail menu, and furniture that smells like cigarettes. But it serves alcohol, and for the shrinking circle of Americans still stationed in the capital, that's enough. U.S. Navy Commander Jack Marshall drinks Johnny Walker Black on the rocks, listens to Coltrane, and wonders whether his shaking hands at a tribal checkpoint that afternoon mean he's a coward.

Then he meets Nur al-Sayed.

Nur is an Egyptian journalist famous across the Arab world, fearless in war zones from Gaza to Damascus, equally at home debating politics over gin martinis. Jack is drawn to her immediately, and she to him, though her Yemeni fixer and cousin warns her that falling for an American in a collapsing country is the most dangerous thing she could do. He's not talking about the war.

As the Houthi insurgency swallows the capital, Jack and Nur fall hard for each other over rooftop scotch, beach volleyball, and late-night conversations neither of them expected to have. But Nur is carrying a secret that could get them both killed, and the people it involves have long memories. When the embassy evacuates and the airport shuts down, the only way out is south, through a country coming apart at the seams, and Jack will have to become someone he's never been sure he could be.

A love story with a knife in its pocket, set in a country most of the world has already forgotten.

Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva, John le Carré, and anyone who misses the grown-up wartime romance of The English Patient.