 His following novel "The Egyptian Assassin" (ا بوعمر المصري) is a journey into the ‘heart of darkness’; it tells the story of a man who flees injustice in his country hoping to return one day and reverse it.His journey takes him from the backstreets of Cairo to the Muslim suburbs of Paris, to the jihadi world in Sudan and Afghanistan, and back to Egypt.Abu Omar's stories combine love with the brutality of state repression and jihad.