Point of View

This story is told from the third person point of view of an omniscient narrator. Since there are so many different entities and points of view to consider in the novel, it would have been an impossible story to tell from a first person point of view. The third person point of view allows the reader to know what is happening with Natalie as she treats Saladin’s wounds and with the agents of the various intelligence agencies as they try to trace Natalie’s movements in the United States and determine what ISIS has planned for her.

Language and Meaning

With’s it foreign phrases and habit of identifying people with a description instead of a name, it can be easy for the reader to get lost in the language of the novel. Since the action of the novel takes place in a variety...