Sequim author George Lindamood recently discovered his book “The Accidental Peacemaker” has become much more topical.

For one part, his story based in Klamath Falls, Ore., about Walter, a divorced airline pilot, focuses on some recent national headlines about Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is facing federal trial for his connection to training terrorists.

“In my story, Walter meets a man named Mac after moving to a cabin. Mac is telling him the lay of the land and that nearby there was this man, James Ujaama, a Muslim convert from Tacoma, who wanted to setup a Jihad training center at a ranch in Bly, Ore., in 1999. This is all pre-9/11.

Ujaama wanted some notoriety so he contacted the biggest name he could find; Abu Hamza who sent two people to investigate it and found it incredibly disappointing. He didn’t have very many eager recruits for combat and making bombs. But al-Masri’s people thought Ujaama was trying to scam Abu in retrospect.

Ujaama said this even in court. I used that bit in my story because I wanted to put some suspense in. There’s a new encampment of ostensibly Middle-Eastern people in my story at this same camp and my characters have some connection to them.

I started writing this in the spring of 2010 and had my first draft January 2011. Abu was extradited in 2012. I picked it up all online five years ago and released my book Dec, 1, 2012, but that’s the crazy part of it; I’m the local expert on Abu because I’m the only one whose heard of him.

The funny thing is that there’s only one page that talks about him. I created a fictional timeline for the book of April 29-Dec. 2014, and the conversation between Mac and Walter is May 20. Ujaama was arrested in 2002 and convicted in 2007.”

“The Accidental Peacemaker” continues with Walter encountering much more mystery and a psychic duck and is available and local and online retailers and in electronic e-books.

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