Shadow government - Munther Al-Qabbani

The novel takes place over two times, in 1908 at the end of the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and in the present, through a Saudi businessman who experiences a mysterious accident during a business visit outside Saudi Arabia. The events of the novel move between the present and the past to reveal to the reader what is behind the ambiguity of the events of the novel in the context of a mixture of excitement and suspense with projections on the situation of the Arab world today.

The magnificence of the events of this novel is completed by reading the second part of it, The Return of the Absent.