The first of a fictional six book thriller series about Yassar Kaffi, a billionaire global developer from Dubai, radicalized by the death of his family in a U.S. cruise missile attack in Yemen. He is transformed and moyivated by awb isaba demands revenge against those that harm, dishonor or disgrace an Omani family. Over the five books this mastermind uses his incredible resources to organize a terrorist network with tactics and goals well beyond those of al Qaeda and ISIS. After several successful terrorist attacks in U.S. and Europe, Yassar has terrorist cells takeover nuclear facilities dismissing the world fear of "dirty bombs" by creating unprecedented fear and chaos, stretching international intelligence agencies attempts to identify and neutralize this audacious and deceptive terrorist mastermind before the next attack.
George C. Baker Biography Since he started his educational career over 46 years ago, George has taught AP History and AP Macroeconomics and served as an administrator in New York, California, Arizona, Maryland, Hawaii and the Netherlands at the American School of The Hague. Over those years, he has served as History Department Chair, Division Head at middle the high school, Assistant Headmaster, and Headmaster. In 1977 he received an U.S. State Department Economic Fellowship to Greece. In 1995 he served on the United Nations delegation to the Russian Ministry of Education for 17 weeks visiting ten pedagogical institutes throughout Russia. George has served on the Harvard Graduate School of Education National Advisory Board (1995-2006) and as Chairman (2000-2006). He has served on the Federal Reserve Bank Economic Education Committee (1994-2002), and the ASCD National Health Education Committee (2004). It is rare to find an educator with the breathe of experience including: Catholic Parochial K-8; Coed Public 6-8; International PreK-12; Coed Independent PreK-12; Private Girls 4-12; Private Boys K-8; Episcopal PreK-12 Schools; and startup Private PreK-12 schools. George has served on nine different accreditation teams and led four in Arizona, California, Maryland, and Hawaii. His last position as Headmaster (2005-2014) was leading the founding of a coed prek-12 independent school on the island of Maui. He serves as the Board President of Global Tech High School for the past four years. George officially retired in 2014. George played and captained four years of collegiate level tennis, was a semni-finalist in the national junior tennis tournament, and played very briefly at the professional level in 1966. Most recently he has involved himself in producing, showing and selling wire sculptures in an Maui Upcountry Gallery. He has completed book 1 of an outlined 6 book series of international intrigue thrillers involving the same characters and spanning the world. Travel has been one of his life long passions, as a world traveler, George has lived abroad (Vietname, Germany, Netherlands, and Greece) for six years and visited 132 different countries. He is a Bronze Star recipient and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a certified scuba diver, enjoys tennis, surfing, kayaking, standup paddleboarding, snow skiing and rock climbing. He is happily married living in Maui, HI; has two and four grandchildren living in the Phoenix area.
