About the book: 2020 / Private detective Joe is hired by a mysterious stranger to search for the disappeared writer Michael Longshott, author of the cult thriller series "The Avenger", telling about the adventures of a superhero named Osama Ben Laden. Joe will have to search in Laos, France, America, Afghanistan, Morocco and England - countries of the world so similar and so different from ours. A world in which World War II ended differently, there is no global terrorism, and reality is illusory. Levi Tidhar was in Dar es Salaam at the time of the American embassy bombing in 1998 and stayed in the same hotel with al-Qaeda militants in Nairobi . He then nearly died with his wife in the 2005 King's Cross station attack and escaped an attack in Sinai in 2004. All this influenced the creation of the novel “Osama».